Wolf Prize in Mathematics 714278 219733628 2008-06-16T17:16:03Z Udzu 73430 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 == {| class="wikitable" |- bgcolor="#cccc" ! style="width:7%" |Year ! style="width:21%" | Name ! style="width:17%" | Nationality ! Citation |- |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}} {{Wolf Prizes}} {{Wolf Prize in Mathematics}} [[Category:Wolf Prizes|Mathematics]] [[Category:Mathematics awards]] [[Category:Awards established in 1978]] [[cs:Seznam nositelů Wolfovy ceny za matematiku]] [[es:Premio Wolf en matemática]] [[hu:Matematikai Wolf-díj]] [[ja:ウルフ賞数学部門]] [[ro:Lista laureaţilor Premiului Wolf pentru matematică]] [[ru:Лауреаты премии Вольфа (математика)]] [[sk:Zoznam nositeľov Wolfovej ceny za matematiku]] [[zh:沃尔夫数学奖]]