“Wolf Prize in Mathematics”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

The Wolf Prize in Mathematics is awarded almost annually{{efn|The Wolf Foundation website describes the prize as annual; however, some prizes are split across years, while in some years no prize is awarded.}} by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics and Arts. According to a reputation survey conducted in 2013 and 2014, the Wolf Prize in Mathematics is the third most prestigious international academic award in mathematics, after the Abel Prize and the Fields Medal.^[1]^[2] Until the establishment of the Abel Prize, it was probably the closest equivalent of a "Nobel Prize in Mathematics", since the Fields Medal is awarded every four years only to mathematicians under the age of 40.

Laureates

Year

Name

Nationality

Citation

1978

Israel Gelfand

for his work in functional analysis, group representation, and for his seminal contributions to many areas of mathematics and its applications.

Carl L. Siegel

for his contributions to the theory of numbers, theory of several complex variables, and celestial mechanics.

1979

Jean Leray

for pioneering work on the development and application of topological methods to the study of differential equations.

André Weil

for his inspired introduction of algebraic-geometric methods to the theory of numbers.

1980

Henri Cartan

for pioneering work in algebraic topology, complex variables, homological algebra and inspired leadership of a generation of mathematicians.

Andrey Kolmogorov

for deep and original discoveries in Fourier analysis, probability theory, ergodic theory and dynamical systems.

1981

Lars Ahlfors

for seminal discoveries and the creation of powerful new methods in geometric function theory.

Oscar Zariski

creator of the modern approach to algebraic geometry, by its fusion with commutative algebra.

1982

Hassler Whitney

for his fundamental work in algebraic topology, differential geometry and differential topology.

Mark Krein

for his fundamental contributions to functional analysis and its applications.

1983/4

Shiing-Shen Chern

for outstanding contributions to global differential geometry, which have profoundly influenced all mathematics.

Paul Erdős

for his numerous contributions to number theory, combinatorics, probability, set theory and mathematical analysis, and for personally stimulating mathematicians the world over.

1984/5

Kunihiko Kodaira

for his outstanding contributions to the study of complex manifolds and algebraic varieties.

Hans Lewy

for initiating many, now classic and essential, developments in partial differential equations.

1986

Samuel Eilenberg

for his fundamental work in algebraic topology and homological algebra.

Atle Selberg

for his profound and original work on number theory and on discrete groups and automorphic forms.

1987

Kiyoshi Itō

for his fundamental contributions to pure and applied probability theory, especially the creation of the stochastic differential and integral calculus.

Peter Lax

for his outstanding contributions to many areas of analysis and applied mathematics.

1988

Friedrich Hirzebruch

for outstanding work combining topology, algebraic geometry and differential geometry, and algebraic number theory; and for his stimulation of mathematical cooperation and research.

Lars Hörmander

for fundamental work in modern analysis, in particular, the application of pseudo-differential operators and Fourier integral operators to linear partial differential equations.

1989

Alberto Calderón

for his groundbreaking work on singular integral operators and their application to important problems in partial differential equations.

John Milnor

for ingenious and highly original discoveries in geometry, which have opened important new vistas in topology from the algebraic, combinatorial, and differentiable viewpoint.

1990

Ennio de Giorgi

for his innovating ideas and fundamental achievements in partial differential equations and calculus of variations.

Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro

for his fundamental contributions in the fields of homogeneous complex domains, discrete groups, representation theory and automorphic forms.

1991

No award

1992

Lennart Carleson

for his fundamental contributions to Fourier analysis, complex analysis, quasi-conformal mappings and dynamical systems.

John G. Thompson

for his profound contributions to all aspects of finite group theory and connections with other branches of mathematics.

1993

Mikhail Gromov

for his revolutionary contributions to global Riemannian and symplectic geometry, algebraic topology, geometric group theory and the theory of partial differential equations;

Jacques Tits

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

for his fundamental work on stability in Hamiltonian mechanics and his profound and influential contributions to nonlinear differential equations.

1995/6

Robert Langlands

for his path-blazing work and extraordinary insight in the fields of number theory, automorphic forms and group representation.

Andrew Wiles

for spectacular contributions to number theory and related fields, major advances on fundamental conjectures, and for settling Fermat's last theorem.

1996/7

Joseph B. Keller

for his profound and innovative contributions, in particular to electromagnetic, optical, and acoustic wave propagation and to fluid, solid, quantum and statistical mechanics.

Yakov G. Sinai

for his fundamental contributions to mathematically rigorous methods in statistical mechanics and the ergodic theory of dynamical systems and their applications in physics.

1998

No award

1999

László Lovász

for his outstanding contributions to combinatorics, theoretical computer science and combinatorial optimization.

Elias M. Stein

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.

2000

Raoul Bott

for his deep discoveries in topology and differential geometry and their applications to Lie groups, differential operators and mathematical physics.

Jean-Pierre Serre

for his many fundamental contributions to topology, algebraic geometry, algebra, and number theory and for his inspirational lectures and writing.

2001

Vladimir Arnold

for his deep and influential work in a multitude of areas of mathematics, including dynamical systems, differential equations, and singularity theory.

Saharon Shelah

for his many fundamental contributions to mathematical logic and set theory, and their applications within other parts of mathematics.

2002/3

Mikio Sato

for his creation of algebraic analysis, including hyperfunction theory and microfunction theory, holonomic quantum field theory, and a unified theory of soliton equations.

John Tate

for his creation of fundamental concepts in algebraic number theory.

2004

No award

2005

Gregory Margulis

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 Novikov

for his fundamental and pioneering contributions to algebraic and differential topology, and to mathematical physics, notably the introduction of algebraic-geometric methods.

2006/7

Stephen Smale

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

for his profound contributions to ergodic theory, probability, topological dynamics, analysis on symmetric spaces and homogeneous flows.

2008

Pierre Deligne

for his work on mixed Hodge theory; the Weil conjectures; the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence; and for his contributions to arithmetic.

Phillip A. Griffiths

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

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.

2009

No award

2010

Shing-Tung Yau

for his work in geometric analysis that has had a profound and dramatic impact on many areas of geometry and physics.

Dennis P. Sullivan

for his innovative contributions to algebraic topology and conformal dynamics.

2011

No award

2012

Michael Aschbacher

for his work on the theory of finite groups.

Luis Caffarelli

for his work on partial differential equations.

2013

George D. Mostow

for his fundamental and pioneering contribution to geometry and Lie group theory.

Michael Artin

for his fundamental contributions to algebraic geometry. His mathematical accomplishments are astonishing for their depth and their scope.

2014

Peter Sarnak

for his deep contributions in analysis, number theory, geometry, and combinatorics.

2015

James G. Arthur

for his monumental work on the trace formula and his fundamental contributions to the theory of automorphic representations of reductive groups.

2016

No award

2017

Richard Schoen

for his contributions to geometric analysis and the understanding of the interconnectedness of partial differential equations and differential geometry.

Charles Fefferman

for his contributions in a number of mathematical areas including complex multivariate analysis, partial differential equations and sub-elliptical problems.

2018

Alexander Beilinson

for their work that has made significant progress at the interface of geometry and mathematical physics.

Vladimir Drinfeld

2019

Jean-Francois Le Gall

for his several deep and elegant contributions to the theory of stochastic processes.

Gregory Lawler

for his comprehensive and pioneering research on erased loops and random walks.^[3]

Notes

References

1. ^{{cite book|author=IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence|title=IREG List of International Academic Awards|publisher=IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence|location=Brussels|url=http://ireg-observatory.org/en/pdfy/IREG-list-academic-awards-EN.pdf|accessdate=3 March 2018}}
2. ^{{cite journal|last1=Zheng|first1=Juntao|last2=Liu|first2=Niancai|title=Mapping of important international academic awards|journal=Scientometrics|date=2015|volume=104|pages=763–791|doi=10.1007/s11192-015-1613-7}}
3. ^Wolf Prize 2019 - Mathematics

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