Abel Prize Laureates Laureates

| Year_ | Laureates | Citizenship | Institution | Citation_ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Jean-Pierre Serre | French | 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 , Isadore Singer | British , American | University of Edinburgh , Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 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 | Courant Institute | for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions |