Wolf Prize in Mathematics
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The '''Wolf Prize in Mathematics''' is awarded once a year by the [[Wolf Foundation]]. It is one of the six [[Wolf Prize]]s established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in [[Wolf Prize in Agriculture|Agriculture]], [[Wolf Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]], [[Wolf Prize in Medicine|Medicine]], [[Wolf Prize in Physics|Physics]] and [[Wolf Prize in Arts|Arts]]. Until the establishment of the [[Abel Prize]], the Prize was probably the closest equivalent of a "Nobel Prize in Mathematics", since the more prestigious [[Fields Medal]] was only awarded every 4 years to mathematicians under 40.
== Laureates ==
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|- bgcolor="#cccc"
! style="width:7%" |Year
! style="width:21%" | Name
! style="width:17%" | Nationality
! Citation
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|rowspan=2| 1978
| [[Israel Gelfand]]
|{{USSR}}
| for his work in functional analysis, group representation, and for his seminal contributions to many areas of mathematics and its applications.
|-
| [[Carl L. Siegel]]
|{{FRG}}
| for his contributions to the theory of numbers, theory of several complex variables, and celestial mechanics.
|-
|rowspan=2| 1979
| [[Jean Leray]]
|{{FRA}}
| for pioneering work on the development and application of topological methods to the study of differential equations.
|-
| [[André Weil]]
|{{FRA}}
| for his inspired introduction of algebra-geometry methods to the theory of numbers.
|-
|rowspan=2| 1980
| [[Henri Cartan]]
|{{FRA}}
| for pioneering work in algebraic topology, complex variables, homological algebra and inspired leadership of a generation of mathematicians.
|-
| [[Andrey Kolmogorov]]
|{{USSR}}
| for deep and original discoveries in Fourier analysis, probability theory, ergodic theory and dynamical systems.
|-
|rowspan=2| 1981
| [[Lars Ahlfors]]
|{{FIN}}
| for seminal discoveries and the creation of powerful new methods in geometric function theory.
|-
| [[Oscar Zariski]]
|{{USA}}
| creator of the modern approach to algebraic geometry, by its fusion with commutative algebra.
|-
|rowspan=2| 1982
| [[Hassler Whitney]]
|{{USA}}
| for his fundamental work in algebraic topology, differential geometry and differential topology.
|-
| [[Mark Grigoryevich Krein]]
| {{USSR}}
| for his fundamental contributions to functional analysis and its applications.
|-
|rowspan=2| 1983/4
| [[Shiing-Shen Chern]]
| {{CHN}}
| for outstanding contributions to global differential geometry, which have profoundly influenced all mathematics.
|-
| [[Paul Erdős]]
| {{HUN}}
| for his numerous contributions to number theory, combinatorics, probability, set theory and mathematical analysis, and for personally stimulating mathematicians the world over.
|-
|rowspan=2| 1984/5
| [[Kunihiko Kodaira]]
|{{JPN}}
| for his outstanding contributions to the study of complex manifolds and algebraic varieties.
|-
| [[Hans Lewy]]
| {{USA}}
| for initiating many, now classic and essential, developments in partial differential equations.
|-
|rowspan=2| 1986
| [[Samuel Eilenberg]]
|{{USA}}
| for his fundamental work in algebraic topology and homological algebra.
|-
| [[Atle Selberg]]
| {{NOR}}
| for his profound and original work on number theory and on discrete groups and automorphic forms.
|-
|rowspan=2| 1987
| [[Kiyoshi Itō]]
|{{JPN}}
| for his fundamental contributions to pure and applied probability theory, especially the creation of the stochastic differential and integral calculus.
|-
| [[Peter Lax]]
| {{USA}}
| for his outstanding contributions to many areas of analysis and applied mathematics.
|-
|rowspan=2| 1988
| [[Friedrich Hirzebruch]]
|{{FRG}}
| for outstanding work combining topology, algebraic and differential geometry, and algebraic number theory; and for his stimulation of mathematical cooperation and research.
|-
| [[Lars Hörmander]]
| {{SWE}}
| for fundamental work in modern analysis, in particular, the application of pseudo-differential and Fourier integral operators to linear partial differential equations.
|-
|rowspan=2| 1989
| [[Alberto Calderón]]
|{{ARG}}
| for his groundbreaking work on singular integral operators and their application to important problems in partial differential equations.
|-
| [[John Milnor]]
| {{USA}}
| for ingenious and highly original discoveries in geometry, which have opened important new vistas in topology from the algebraic, combinatorial, and differentiable viewpoint.
|-
|rowspan=2| 1990
| [[Ennio de Giorgi]]
|{{ITA}}
| for his innovating ideas and fundamental achievements in partial differential equations and calculus of variations.
|-
| [[Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro]]
| {{ISR}}
| for his fundamental contributions in the fields of homogeneous complex domains, discrete groups, representation theory and automorphic forms.
|-
| 1991
|colspan=3| No award
|-
|rowspan=2| 1992
| [[Lennart Carleson]]
|{{SWE}}
| for his fundamental contributions to Fourier analysis, complex analysis, quasi-conformal mappings and dynamical systems.
|-
| [[John G. Thompson]]
| {{USA}}
| for his profound contributions to all aspects of finite group theory and connections with other branches of mathematics.
|-
|rowspan=2| 1993
| [[Mikhail Gromov]]
|{{RUS}}
| for his revolutionary contributions to global Riemannian and symplectic geometry, algebraic topology, geometric group theory and the theory of partial differential equations;
|-
| [[Jacques Tits]]
| {{BEL}} / {{FRA}}
| for his pioneering and fundamental contributions to the theory of the structure of algebraic and other classes of groups and in particular for the theory of buildings.
|-
| 1994/5
| [[Jürgen Moser]]
| {{SUI}}
| for his fundamental work on stability in Hamiltonian mechanics and his profound and influential contributions to nonlinear differential equations.
|-
|rowspan=2| 1995/6
| [[Robert Langlands]]
| {{CAN}}
| for his path-blazing work and extraordinary insight in the fields of number thory, automorphic forms and group representation.
|-
| [[Andrew Wiles]]
| {{GBR}}
| for spectacular contributions to number theory and related fields, major advances on fundamental conjectures,and for settling Fermat's last theorem.
|-
|rowspan=2| 1996/7
| [[Joseph B. Keller]]
| {{USA}}
| for his profound and innovative contributions, in particular to electromagnetic, optical, acoustic wave propagation and to fluid, solid, quantum and statistical mechanics.
|-
| [[Yakov G. Sinai]]
| {{RUS}}
| for his fundamental contributions to mathematically rigorous methods in statistical mechanics and the ergodic theory of dynamical systems and their applications in physics.
|-
| 1998
|colspan=3| No award
|-
|rowspan=2| 1999
| [[László Lovász]]
| {{HUN}}
| for his outstanding contributions to combinatorics, theoretical computer science and combinatorial optimization.
|-
| [[Elias M. Stein]]
| {{BEL}} / {{USA}}
| for his contributions to classical and "Euclidean" Fourier analysis and for his exceptional impact on a new generation of analysts through his eloquent teaching and writing.
|-
|rowspan=2| 2000
| [[Raoul Bott]]
| {{USA}}
| for his deep discoveries in topology and differential geometry and their applications to Lie groups, differential operators and mathematical physics.
|-
| [[Jean-Pierre Serre]]
| {{FRA}}
| for his many fundamental contributions to topology, algebraic geometry, algebra, and number theory and for his inspirational lectures and writing.
|-
|rowspan=2| 2001
| [[Vladimir Arnold]]
| {{RUS}}
| for his deep and influential work in a multitude of areas of mathematics, including dynamical systems, differential equations, and singularity.
|-
| [[Saharon Shelah]]
| {{ISR}}
| for his many fundamental contributions to mathematical logic and set theory, and their applications within other parts of mathematics.
|-
|rowspan=2| 2002/3
| [[Mikio Sato]]
| {{JPN}}
| for his creation of ‘algebraic analysis', including hyperfunction and microfunction theory, holonomic quantum field theory, and a unified theory of soliton equations.
|-
| [[John Tate]]
| {{USA}}
| for his creation of fundamental concepts in algebraic number theory.
|-
| 2004
|colspan=3| No award
|-
|rowspan=2| 2005
| [[Gregory Margulis]]
| {{RUS}}
| for his monumental contributions to algebra, in particular to the theory of lattices in semi-simple Lie groups, and striking applications of this to ergodic theory, representation theory, number theory, combinatorics, and measure theory.
|-
| [[Sergei Petrovich Novikov]]
| {{RUS}}
| for his fundamental and pioneering contributions to algebraic and differential topology, and to mathematical physics, notably the introduction of algebraic-geometric methods.
|-
|rowspan=2| 2006/7
| [[Stephen Smale]]
| {{USA}}
| for his groundbreaking contributions that have played a fundamental role in shaping differential topology, dynamical systems, mathematical economics, and other subjects in mathematics.
|-
| [[Hillel Furstenberg]]
| {{ISR}}
| for his profound contributions to ergodic theory, probability, topological dynamics, analysis on symmetric spaces and homogenous flows.
|-
|rowspan=3| 2008
| [[Pierre Deligne]]
| {{BEL}}
| for his work on mixed Hodge theory; the Weil conjectures; the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence; and for his contributions to arithmetic.
|-
| [[Phillip A. Griffiths]]
| {{USA}}
| for his work on variations of Hodge structures; the theory of periods of abelian integrals; and for his contributions to complex differential geometry.
|-
| [[David B. Mumford]]
| {{USA}}
| for his work on algebraic surfaces; on geometric invariant theory; and for laying the foundations of the modern algebraic theory of moduli of curves and theta functions.
|-
|}
== References ==
*{{cite web | author= | title=The Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics | url=http://www.wolffund.org.il/cat.asp?id=23&cat_title=MATHEMATICS | publisher=Wolf Foundation | date=2008 | accessdate=2008-04-08}}
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