Awards for mathematics facts for kids
This article is about special awards given to people who are really good at mathematics. These awards celebrate amazing discoveries and hard work in the world of numbers and shapes. They are a way to honor mathematicians and encourage new ideas.
Here's what you'll find out about each award:
- Prize: This is the name of the award. It often honors a famous mathematician or someone who loved helping others.
- Organization: This is the group that gives out the award. It could be a math club, a charity, or even a government agency.
- Headquarters: This is the country where the award usually comes from. If you see a plus sign (+) after the country, it means mathematicians from anywhere in the world can win!
- Value: This is how much money the winner receives. Sometimes, it also helps cover travel costs.
- Note: This section gives extra details, like:
- Age limit: Some awards are only for younger mathematicians.
- Women: Some awards are just for women mathematicians.
- Student grant: This means the award helps students pay for courses, master's degrees, or special projects.
- University: You might need to be connected to a certain university to get the award.
- Specialty: Some awards are only for a specific area of math, like "Differential equations."
You can sort the list by clicking on the column titles like Prize, Organize, or Value!
| Prize | Organize | Headquarters | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics | Yuri Milner, Marc Zuckerberg | Russia | align="right"| $3,000,000 | Started in 2014 |
| Konex Prize | Konex | Argentina | ||
| Premio Clodomiro Picado Twight | MICIT | Costa Rica | align="right"| ≈ $9,000 | Under 40 years old |
| Medalla Narcís Monturiol | GenCat | Spain | align="right"| €3,000 | |
| Premio TWAS | ICTP | Italy + | align="right"| $2,000 | Under 40 years old |
| Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes | SEP | Mexico + | ||
| Bernd Aulbach Prize | ISDE | United States + | align="right"| €400 | For Differential equations |
| Mca Prize | CIMAT UMALCA | Mexico + | align="right"| $1,000 | |
| Americas Prize | CIMAT UMALCA | Mexico + | align="right"| $5,000 | |
| Solomon Lefschetz Medals | CIMAT UMALCA | Mexico + | align="right"| $5,000 | |
| Beal Prize | Andrew Beal AMS | United States + | align="right"| $1,000,000 | |
| Philip Leverhulme Prize | Leverhulme Trust | England + | align="right"| £70,000 | |
| Premio Euskadi de Investigación | EJGV | Spain | align="right"| €40,000 | |
| Shao prize | Hong Kong | align="right"| $1,000,000 | ||
| Prix Elie Cartan | CNRS | France | align="right"| €3,800 | Under 45 years old |
| Prix Thérèse Gautier | ASF | France | align="right"| €10,000 | |
| Prix Gabrielle Sand et M. Guido Triossi | ASF | France | align="right"| €1,500 | |
| Prix Léonid Frank | ASF | France + | align="right"| €30,000 | |
| Prix Jacques-Louis Lions | SMAI | France | align="right"| €10,000 | |
| Prix Blaise Pascal | SMAI GAMNI | France | align="right"| €3,000 | |
| Prix Lagrange | SMAI SEMA SIMAI | Europe + | ||
| Prix Maurice Audin | SMAI SMF | France | align="right"| €1,500 | Under 45 years old |
| André Lichnerowicz prize | EPFL | Switzerland | align="right"| €500 | For Poisson geometry |
| Leonard Eisenbud prize | AMS | United States | align="right"| $5,000 | |
| David P. Robbins prize | AMS | United States | align="right"| $5,000 | |
| Prix Fonde par L'État | France | align="right"| €7,500 | ||
| Prix La Recherche | France | Under 40 years old | ||
| Prix Jacques Herbrand | ASF | France | align="right"| €25,000 | Under 35 years old |
| Prix Ernest Déchelle | ASF | France | align="right"| €1,500 | |
| Prix Paul Doistau - Émile Blutet | ASF | France | align="right"| €3,000 | |
| Prix Petit d'Ormoy, Carrière, Thébault | ASF | France | align="right"| €1,500 | |
| Médaille Émile Picard | ASF | France | ||
| Royal Medal | RSL | England | align="right"| £5,000 | |
| Richard C. DiPrima Prize | SIAM | United States + | align="right"| $1,000 | |
| Red Sock Award | SIAG | United States + | align="right"| $100 | |
| Gábor Szegö Prize | SIAG | United States + | ||
| Australian Mathematical Society Medal | AustMS | Australia + | Under 40 years old | |
| Premio Franco Tricerri | UMI | Italy | ||
| Premio Calogero Vinti | UMI | Italy | align="right"| €4,100 | Under 40 years old |
| Premio Gaetano Fichera | UMI | Italy | align="right"| €5,000 | Under 40 years old |
| Premio Ennio de Giorgi | UMI | Italy | align="right"| €3,000 | Under 45 years old |
| Abramov Prize | SPb | Russia | Under 35 years old | |
| Premio Internacional Abertis | Abertis | Spain | align="right"| €10,000 | |
| Christopher Heyde Medal | AAS | Australia | align="right"| $10,000 | Under 40 years old |
| Premi Nacional de Recerca | FCRI | Spain | align="right"| €40,000 | |
| Abdus Salam Award | NUST | Pakistan | align="right"| $1,000 | Under 35 years old |
| Abel Prize | Norway + | align="right"| €740,000 | ||
| Ackermann Teubner | Germany + | align="right"| €30,000 | ||
| Adams Prize | England + | align="right"| £14,000 | Under 40 years old | |
| Adrien Pouliot Award | Canada | |||
| Aisenstadt Prize | CRM | Canada | align="right"| $3,000 | |
| Premi Albert Dou | SEMA SCM | Spain | align="right"| €2,500 | |
| D'Alembert Award | ASME | United States | ||
| Alexander von Humboldt Awards | Germany + | align="right"| €60,000 | ||
| Alfréd Rényi Prize | Hungary | |||
| Prix Ampère | ASF | France | align="right"| €30,500 | |
| Austrian Math. Society Prize | ÖMG | Austria | align="right"| €1,000 | |
| Premio Giuseppe Bartolozzi | UMI | Italy | align="right"| €516 | Under 34 years old |
| Bateman Prize | ||||
| Beal Conjecture and Prize | AMS | United States + | align="right"| $100,000 | |
| Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize | MOS | United States | align="right"| $1,500 | |
| Berwick Prize | LMS | England | ||
| Bôcher Memorial Prize | AMS | United States + | align="right"| $5,000 | |
| Bolyai Janos Prize | HAS | Hungary + | align="right"| €179,000 | |
| Leonard M. Blumenthal Award | AMS | United States + | ||
| Premio Renato Caccioppoli | UMI | Italy | Under 39 years old | |
| Cantor Medal | DMV | Germany | ||
| Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize | IMU DMV | Germany + | align="right"| €10,000 | |
| Centennial Fellowships | AMS | United States | align="right"| $90,000 | Student grant |
| Chauvenet Prize | MAA | United States | align="right"| $1,000 | |
| Charles Moran Award | Australia | Under 40 years old | ||
| Chern Medal | ICM | United States | align="right"| $250,000 | |
| Millennium Prize Problems | CMI | United States + | align="right"| $1,000,000 | |
| Clay Research Award | CMI | United States | ||
| Frank Nelson Cole Prize | AMS | United States | align="right"| $5,000 | For Algebra or Number Theory |
| Collatz Prize | United States | Under 42 years old | ||
| Premio Consagración | ANCEFN | Argentina | align="right"| $10,000 | Under 40 years old |
| COPSS Presidents Award | United States | Under 40 years old | ||
| Coxeter-James Prize | CMS | Canada | ||
| Crafoord Prize | KVA | Sweden + | align="right"| $600,000 | |
| J.D. Crawford Prize | SIAG | United States | align="right"| $750 | |
| Christopher Zeeman Medal | IMA LMS | England | ||
| CRM Fields PIMS Prize | Canada | |||
| Dannie Heineman Prize | APS | United States + | align="right"| $10,000 | |
| David-Borwein | CMS | Canada | ||
| David Hilbert Award | WFNMC | Award is closed | ||
| Denes König Prize SIAG/DM | SIAM | United States | align="right"| $1,000 | |
| Premio Descartes | UE | Europe | align="right"| €1,000,000 | |
| Award for Distinguished Public Service | AMS | United States + | align="right"| $4,000 | |
| Dirac Medal | ICTP | United States + | align="right"| $5,000 | |
| Premio Divulgacion en Matemáticas | SEMA | Spain | ||
| Emil Artin Junior Prize | AMS | Armenia | Under 35 years old | |
| Erdos Prize | WFNMC | Israel | Under 40 years old | |
| Premio de Excelencia Científica | FCFM | Chile | align="right"| $15,000 | Under 40 years old |
| Premio Estímulo | ANCEFN | Argentina | align="right"| $5,000 | Under 40 years old |
| Euler Book Prize | MAA | United States | ||
| EMS Monograph Award | EMS | + Europa | align="right"| €10,000 | |
| EMS Prize | ECM | Europe + | align="right"| €5,000 | Under 35 years old |
| Falconer Lecturer | AWM MAA | United States | For Women | |
| Premio Fermat | IMT | France + | align="right"| €20,000 | |
| Junior Fermat Prize | IMT | France + | align="right"| €2,000 | |
| Premi Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer | IEC | Spain + | align="right"| €15,000 | |
| Fields Medal | IMU | Europa + | align="right"| €10,000 | Under 40 years old |
| Frederick W. Lanchester Prize | INFORMS | United States + | align="right"| $5,000 | |
| Frohlich Prize | LMS | England | Under 25 years old | |
| Fronteras | FBBVA CSIC | Spain + | align="right"| €400,000 | |
| Student grant Fullbright | Argentina United States |
Student grant | ||
| Fulkerson Prize | MPS AMS | United States + | align="right"| $1,500 | |
| Premio Évariste Galois | SCM IEC | Spain | align="right"| €1,000 | |
| Germund Dahlquist Prize | SIAM | United States + | align="right"| $1,000 | |
| George B. Dantzig Prize | SIAM MOS | United States + | ||
| George David Birkhoff Prize | SIAM AMS | United States + | align="right"| $5,000 | |
| George Polya Prize | SIAM | United States + | align="right"| $20,000 | |
| George Szekeres Medal | AustMS | Australia + | ||
| Guy Medal | RSS | England | Under 35 years old | |
| Hannan Medal | AustMS | Australia | ||
| Hans Freudenthal Awards | ICMI | Holland + | ||
| Heinz Hopf Prize | ETH | Switzerland + | align="right"| €20,000 | |
| Henri-Poincare Prize | IAMP | Europe + | ||
| Michael Holmboe Memorial Prize | Norway | align="right"| €35,800 | ||
| Premio Príncipe de Asturias de Investigación | FPA | Spain + | align="right"| €50,000 | |
| ICTCM Award | ICTCM | United States + | ||
| J. L. Lions | ECCOMAS | Europa + | align="right"| $3,000 | Under 40 years old |
| J.H. Wilkinson Prize | SIAM | United States + | align="right"| $3,000 | Under 40 years old |
| Jeffery-Williams Prize | CMS | Canada + | ||
| John Lighton Synge Award | RSC | Canada + | ||
| Premio Nacional de Investigación Júlio Rey Pastor | MEC | Spain + | ||
| Premio Nacional de Ciencias Exactas de Chile | CNCA | Chile | align="right"| 18,125,000 pesos | |
| Jürgen Moser Lecture | SIAG | United States | align="right"| $500 | |
| Premio José Luis Rubio de Francia | RSME | Spain | align="right"| €3,000 | Under 32 years old |
| Premio Joseph S.DeBlasi | ACM | United States + | ||
| Karp Prize | ASL | United States + | ||
| Keith Medal | England + | |||
| Kirkman medal | ICA | |||
| Felix Klein | EMS ITWM | Germany + | align="right"| €5,000 | Under 38 years old |
| Knuth Prize | ACM IEEE-CS | United States | align="right"| $5,000 | |
| Krieger-Nelson Prize | CMS | Canada | For Women | |
| Lagrange Prize | MPS MOS | United States | align="right"| $1,500 | |
| Premio Europeo Latsis | ESF | Europa + | align="right"| 100,000 Swiss francs | |
| Leroy P. Steele Prize | AMS | United States + | align="right"| $5,000 | |
| Leslie Fox Prize | IMA | United States + | Under 31 years old; for Numerical analysis | |
| Lester Randolph Ford Prize | MAA | United States | align="right"| $500 | |
| Levi L. Conant Prize | AMS | United States | align="right"| $1,000 | |
| Lilavati Award | ICM IMU | India | align="right"| $20,000 | |
| Lobachevsk Prize | RAS | Russia + | ||
| Loeve Prize | United States + | align="right"| $30,000 | Under 45 years old; for Probability theory | |
| Lyapunov Award | ASME | United States | ||
| Michler Prize | AWM | United States | align="right"| $46,000 | For Women |
| Morgan Prize | AMS MAA | United States + | align="right"| $1,200 | |
| E.H. Moore Prize | AMS | United States | align="right"| $5,000 | |
| NAS Award | NAS | United States | align="right"| $5,000 | |
| National Medal of Science | NSF | United States + | ||
| Naylor Prize | LMS | England | ||
| Nemmers | United States | align="right"| $150,000 | For Northwestern University | |
| Nessyahu Prize | Israel | |||
| Nevanlinna Prize | IMU | Finland + | Under 40 years old | |
| Norbert Wiener Prize | AMS | United States | align="right"| $5,000 | |
| Oberwolfach Prize | MFO | Germany + | align="right"| €10,000 | Under 35 years old |
| Ostrowski Prize | Switzerland | align="right"| 100,000 Fr. | ||
| Oswald Veblen Prize | EMS | United States + | align="right"| $5,000 | For Geometry |
| Paul Erdos Award | WFNMC | Bulgaria + | ||
| Paul Erdos Prize | HAS | Hungary | Under 40 years old | |
| Peter Henrici Prize | SIAM ETHZ | United States | align="right"| $5,000 | |
| Pi Mu Epsilon Award | AMS | United States | ||
| Pioneer Prize | ICIAM | United States | align="right"| $1,000 | Under 42 years old |
| Premio Pitágoras | Italy + | align="right"| €20,000 | ||
| Polya Prize | LMS | England | ||
| Prix Poncelet | ASF | France | align="right"| 2,000 Fr | |
| Prandtl medall | ECCOMAS | Europa | ||
| Concurso Unión Europea para Jóvenes Científicos | EUCYS | Europa | align="right"| €28,500 | Ages 18–20 years |
| Jóvenes Investigadores | CSIC | Spain | align="right"| €5,000 | Ages 15–20 years |
| Ralph E. Kleinman Prize | SIAM | United States | align="right"| $5,000 | |
| Ramanujan Prize | ICTP | Italy + | align="right"| $10,000 | Under 45 years old |
| Premio Reconocimiento | UMALCA | Latin America | align="right"| $2,500 | |
| Richard Rado Preis | Germany | align="right"| €1,000 | ||
| Rolf Schock Prize | KVA | Sweden + | align="right"| €44,000 | |
| Rollo Davidson Prize | England | |||
| Rosalind Franklin | RSL | England | align="right"| £30,000 | |
| RSA Medal | RSA | United States + | align="right"| $200,000 | |
| Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize | AMS | United States | align="right"| $5,000 | For Women |
| Salem Prize | AMS | United States + | ||
| SASTRA Ramanujan Prize | SASTRA | India | align="right"| $10,000 | Under 35 years old |
| Schafer Prize | AWM | United States | For Women | |
| Premio SEMA al joven investigador | SEMA | Spain | align="right"| €1,500 | |
| Prix de thèse SMAI GAMNI | ECCOMAS | Europe + | ||
| Senior Whitehead Prize | LMS | England + | ||
| Starting Grant | ERC | Europa | align="right"| €1,500,000 | Student grant |
| Selfridge Prize | ANTS | Germany | For Computational Number Theory | |
| Prix Servant | ASF | France | align="right"| €7,500 | |
| Shaw Prize | China + | align="right"| $1,000,000 | ||
| Sylvester Medal | RSL | England + | align="right"| £3,500 | |
| Sir Edmund Whittaker | England | For Edinburgh | ||
| Sloan Fellowship | APSF | United States | ||
| Smith's Prize | England | |||
| Sofja-Kovalevskaja Award | Humboldt foundation | Germany | align="right"| €1,650,000 | |
| Premio Sofia Kovalévskaya | SMM FSK | Mexico | For Women | |
| Prix Sophie-Germain | ASF | France | align="right"| €8,000 | |
| Premio Sotero Prieto | MMS | Mexico | ||
| Stampacchia Medal | UMI | Italy + | Under 35 years old | |
| Stefan Bergman Prize | AMS | United States | align="right"| $12,500 | |
| Takebe Prizes | MSJ | Japan | ||
| Premio Talento Matemático | Chile | align="right"| $5,000 | Under 23 years old | |
| J. Hall Taylor Medal | ASME | United States + | align="right"| $1,000 | |
| Theodore von Karman Prize | SIAM | United States | align="right"| $1,000 | |
| Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal | AAS | Australia | ||
| Turing Award | ACM Intel Google | United States + | align="right"| $250,000 | |
| Whitehead Prize | LMS | England + | ||
| Whittaker Prize | England + | align="right"| £500 | Under 35 years old | |
| Senior Whittaker Prize | England + | align="right"| £500 | Under 35 years old | |
| W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize | SIAM | United States + | align="right"| $20,000 | |
| Wilks Memorial Awrd | ASA | United States | align="right"| $1,500 | |
| William Lowell Putnam | MAA | United States | align="right"| $2,500 | |
| Wolf Prize | Israel + | align="right"| $100,000 | Under 40 years old | |
| Wolfskehl Prize | Germany | align="right"| €14,000 | ||
| Zienkievwicz Medal | England + | align="right"| £1,000 |
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