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

Year	Winner(s)	Image	Citizenship(s)	Work place(s)	Citation
2003	Serre, Jean-PierreJean-Pierre Serre		France	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	Atiyah, MichaelMichael Atiyah		United Kingdom	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."
	Singer, IsadoreIsadore Singer		United States	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2005	Lax, PeterPeter Lax		Hungary /  United States	Courant Institute	"For his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions."
2006	Carleson, LennartLennart Carleson		Sweden	Royal Institute of Technology	"For his profound and seminal contributions to harmonic analysis and the theory of smooth dynamical systems."
2007	Varadhan, S. R. SrinivasaS. R. Srinivasa Varadhan		India /  United States	Courant Institute	"For his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviation."
2008	Thompson, John G.John G. Thompson		United States	University of Florida	"For their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory."
	Tits, JacquesJacques Tits		Belgium /  France	Collège de France
2009	Gromov, MikhailMikhail Gromov		Russia /  France	Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques and Courant Institute	"For his revolutionary contributions to geometry."
2010	Tate, JohnJohn Tate		United States	University of Texas at Austin	"For his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers."
2011	Milnor, JohnJohn Milnor		United States	Stony Brook University	"For pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry, and algebra."
2012	Szemerédi, EndreEndre Szemerédi		Hungary /  United States	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	Deligne, PierrePierre Deligne		Belgium	Institute for Advanced Study	"For seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact on number theory, representation theory, and related fields."
2014	Sinai, YakovYakov Sinai		Russia /  United States	Princeton University and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics	"For his fundamental contributions to dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and mathematical physics."
2015	Nash, Jr., John ForbesJohn Forbes Nash, Jr.		United States	Princeton University	"For striking and seminal contributions to the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and its applications to geometric analysis."
	Nirenberg, LouisLouis Nirenberg		Canada /  United States	Courant Institute
2016	Wiles, AndrewAndrew Wiles		United Kingdom	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	Meyer, YvesYves Meyer		France	École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay	"For his pivotal role in the development of the mathematical theory of wavelets."
2018	Langlands, RobertRobert Langlands		Canada /  United States	Institute for Advanced Study	"For his visionary program connecting representation theory to number theory."
2019	Uhlenbeck, KarenKaren Uhlenbeck		United States	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	Furstenberg, HillelHillel Furstenberg		Israel /  United States	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	"For pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics."
	Margulis, GrigoryGrigory Margulis		Russia /  United States	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

In Spanish: Premio Abel para niños