Abel Prize facts for kids
The Abel Prize (Norwegian: Abelprisen) is a Norwegian prize awarded every year by the Government of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. It is named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829) and modelled after the Nobel Prizes, the award was established in 2001 by the Government of Norway and complements its sister prize in the humanities, the Holberg Prize.
It comes with a monetary award of 6 million Norwegian kroner (NOK) (around €650,000).
Winners
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2003 | Jean-Pierre Serre | ![]() |
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Collège de France | "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 | ![]() |
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University of Edinburgh | "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." |
Isadore Singer | ![]() |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
2005 | Peter Lax | ![]() |
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Courant Institute | "For his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions." |
2006 | Lennart Carleson | ![]() |
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Royal Institute of Technology | "For his profound and seminal contributions to harmonic analysis and the theory of smooth dynamical systems." |
2007 | S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan | ![]() ![]() |
Courant Institute | "For his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviation." | |
2008 | John G. Thompson | ![]() |
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University of Florida | "For their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory." |
Jacques Tits | ![]() |
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Collège de France | ||
2009 | Mikhail Gromov | ![]() |
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Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques and Courant Institute | "For his revolutionary contributions to geometry." |
2010 | John Tate | ![]() |
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University of Texas at Austin | "For his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers." |
2011 | John Milnor | ![]() |
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Stony Brook University | "For pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry, and algebra." |
2012 | Endre Szemerédi | ![]() ![]() |
Alfréd Rényi Institute and Rutgers University |
"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 | ![]() |
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Institute for Advanced Study | "For seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact on number theory, representation theory, and related fields." |
2014 | Yakov Sinai | ![]() |
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Princeton University and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics | "For his fundamental contributions to dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and mathematical physics." |
2015 | John Forbes Nash, Jr. | ![]() |
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Princeton University | "For striking and seminal contributions to the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and its applications to geometric analysis." |
Louis Nirenberg | ![]() |
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Courant Institute | ||
2016 | Andrew Wiles | ![]() |
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University of Oxford | "For his stunning proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by way of the modularity conjecture for semistable elliptic curves, opening a new era in number theory." |
2017 | Yves Meyer | ![]() |
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École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay | "For his pivotal role in the development of the mathematical theory of wavelets." |
2018 | Robert Langlands | ![]() |
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Institute for Advanced Study | "For his visionary program connecting representation theory to number theory." |
2019 | Karen Uhlenbeck | ![]() |
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University of Texas at Austin | "For her pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory and integrable systems, and for the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics." |
2020 | Hillel Furstenberg | ![]() |
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem | "For pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics." |
Grigory Margulis | ![]() |
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Yale University |
Images for kids
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The prize is awarded in the aula of the Domus Media building of the University of Oslo Faculty of Law, where the Nobel Peace Prize was formerly awarded
See also
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