Abel Prize

The Abel Prize  () 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 Laureate(s) Image Institution(s) Citation 2003  100px|alt=Jean-Pierre Serre 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  100px|alt=Michael Atiya University of Edinburgh
University of Cambridge "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."  100px|alt=Isadore Singer Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, Berkeley 2005  100px|alt=Peter Lax Courant Institute "For his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions." 2006  100px|alt=Lennart Carleson Royal Institute of Technology "For his profound and seminal contributions to harmonic analysis and the theory of smooth dynamical systems." 2007  100px|alt=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  100px|alt=John Griggs Thompson University of Florida "For their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory."  100px|alt=Jacques Tits Collège de France 2009  100px|alt=Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Institut des hautes études scientifiques and Courant Institute "For his revolutionary contributions to geometry." 2010  100px|alt=John Tate University of Texas at Austin "For his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers." 2011  100px|alt=John Milnor Stony Brook University "For pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry, and algebra." 2012  100px|alt=Endre Szemeredi 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  100px|alt=Pierre Deligne Institute for Advanced Study "For seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact on number theory, representation theory, and related fields." 2014  100px|alt=Yakov G Sinai Princeton University and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics "For his fundamental contributions to dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and mathematical physics." 2015  100px|alt=John Forbes Nash Jr. Princeton University "For striking and seminal contributions to the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and its applications to geometric analysis."  100px|alt=Louis Nirenberg Courant Institute 2016  100px|alt=Andrew Wiles 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  100px|alt=Yves Meyer École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay "For his pivotal role in the development of the mathematical theory of wavelets." 2018  100px|alt=Robert Langlands Institute for Advanced Study "For his visionary program connecting representation theory to number theory." 2019  100px|alt=Karen Uhlenbeck 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  100px|alt=Hillel (Harry) Furstenberg Hebrew University of Jerusalem "For pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics."  100px|alt=Grigory Margulis Yale University 2021  100px|alt=Laszlo Lovasz Eötvös Loránd University "For their foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, and their leading role in shaping them into central fields of modern mathematics".  100px|alt=Avi Wigerson Institute for Advanced Study 2022  100px|alt=Dennis Sullivan Stony Brook University "For his groundbreaking contributions to topology in its broadest sense, and in particular its algebraic, geometric and dynamical aspects." 2023  100px|alt=Luis Caffarelli University of Texas at Austin "For his seminal contributions to regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations including free-boundary problems and the Monge–Ampère equation." 2024  100px|alt=Michel Talagrand Centre national de la recherche scientifique "For his groundbreaking contributions to probability theory and functional analysis, with outstanding applications in mathematical physics and statistics."

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