ABEL AWARD

ABEL AWARD

Awarded for     Outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics

Country            Norway

Presented by    King of Norway

First awarded   2003

The Abel Award is an international award presented by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. Named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829), the award was established in 2001 by the Government of Norway and complements the Holberg Prize in the humanities.

The Abel Award Started in 2003 and it has often been described as the “Nobel Prize for Mathematics”. It carries the prize money of Rs. 4.5 crore i.e., 6 million Norwegian kroner (NOK) (approximately US$1 million). The award ceremony takes place in the Atrium of the University of Oslo Faculty of Law, where the Nobel Peace Prize was formerly awarded between 1947 and 1989.

List of winners of each year, their citizenship and the justified citation:

Year     Laureate(s)                   Citizenship       Citation

2003     Jean-Pierre Serre         French             for playing a key role in shaping the modern form of many parts of mathematics, including topology, algebraic geometry and number theory

2004     Michael Atiyah; Isadore Singer British; American         for their discovery and proof of the index theorem, bringing together topology, geometry and analysis, and their outstanding role in building new bridges between mathematics and theoretical physics      

 

2005     Peter Lax                      American         for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions

2006     Lennart Carleson          Swedish           for his profound and seminal contributions to harmonic analysis and the theory of smooth dynamical systems

2007     S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan         Indian/American           for his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviation

2008     John G. Thompson; Jacques Tits         American; Belgian/French        for their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory   

      

2009     Mikhail Gromov           Russian/French            for his revolutionary contributions to geometry

2010     John T. Tate     American                     or his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers

2011     John Milnor     American         for pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry, and algebra  

 

2012     Endre Szemerédi         Hungarian/ American   for his fundamental contributions to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, and in recognition of the profound and lasting impact of these contributions on additive number theory and ergodic theory

2013     Pierre Deligne  Belgian            for seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact on number theory, representation theory, and related fields

2014     Yakov G. Sinai Russian/American        for his fundamental contributions to dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and mathematical physics