Wolf Prize in Mathematics

Template:Short description The Wolf Prize in Mathematics is awarded almost annuallyTemplate:Efn 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. The Wolf Prize includes a monetary award of $100,000.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Laureates

Year	Name	Nationality	Citation
1978	Israel Gelfand	Template:USSR	for his work in functional analysis, group representation, and for his seminal contributions to many areas of mathematics and its applications.
	Carl L. Siegel	Template:GER	for his contributions to the theory of numbers, theory of several complex variables, and celestial mechanics.
1979	Jean Leray	Template:FRA	for pioneering work on the development and application of topological methods to the study of differential equations.
	André Weil	Template:FRA	for his inspired introduction of algebraic-geometric methods to the theory of numbers.
1980	Henri Cartan	Template:FRA	for pioneering work in algebraic topology, complex variables, homological algebra and inspired leadership of a generation of mathematicians.
	Andrey Kolmogorov	Template:USSR	for deep and original discoveries in Fourier analysis, probability theory, ergodic theory and dynamical systems.
1981	Lars Ahlfors	Template:FIN	for seminal discoveries and the creation of powerful new methods in geometric function theory.
	Oscar Zariski	Template:USA	creator of the modern approach to algebraic geometry, by its fusion with commutative algebra.
1982	Hassler Whitney	Template:USA	for his fundamental work in algebraic topology, differential geometry and differential topology.
	Mark Krein	Template:USSR	for his fundamental contributions to functional analysis and its applications.
1983/84	Shiing-Shen Chern	Template:CHN Template:USA	for outstanding contributions to global differential geometry, which have profoundly influenced all mathematics.
	Paul Erdős	Template:HUN	for his numerous contributions to number theory, combinatorics, probability, set theory and mathematical analysis, and for personally stimulating mathematicians the world over.
1984/85	Kunihiko Kodaira	Template:JPN	for his outstanding contributions to the study of complex manifolds and algebraic varieties.
	Hans Lewy	Template:USA	for initiating many, now classic and essential, developments in partial differential equations.
1986	Samuel Eilenberg	Template:POL Template:USA	for his fundamental work in algebraic topology and homological algebra.
	Atle Selberg	Template:NOR	for his profound and original work on number theory and on discrete groups and automorphic forms.
1987	Kiyoshi Itō	Template:JPN	for his fundamental contributions to pure and applied probability theory, especially the creation of the stochastic differential and integral calculus.
	Peter Lax	Template:HUN Template:USA	for his outstanding contributions to many areas of analysis and applied mathematics.
1988	Friedrich Hirzebruch	Template:GER	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	Template:SWE	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	Template:ARG	for his groundbreaking work on singular integral operators and their application to important problems in partial differential equations.
	John Milnor	Template:USA	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	Template:ITA	for his innovating ideas and fundamental achievements in partial differential equations and calculus of variations.
	Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro	Template:USSR Template:ISR	for his fundamental contributions in the fields of homogeneous complex domains, discrete groups, representation theory and automorphic forms.
1991	No award
1992	Lennart Carleson	Template:SWE	for his fundamental contributions to Fourier analysis, complex analysis, quasi-conformal mappings and dynamical systems.
	John G. Thompson	Template:USA	for his profound contributions to all aspects of finite group theory and connections with other branches of mathematics.
1993	Mikhail Gromov	Template:RUS Template:FRA	for his revolutionary contributions to global Riemannian and symplectic geometry, algebraic topology, geometric group theory and the theory of partial differential equations;
	Jacques Tits	Template:BEL Template:FRA	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.
1994/95	Jürgen Moser	Template:SUI Template:USA	for his fundamental work on stability in Hamiltonian mechanics and his profound and influential contributions to nonlinear differential equations.
1995/96	Robert Langlands	Template:CAN	for his path-blazing work and extraordinary insight in the fields of number theory, automorphic forms and group representation.
	Andrew Wiles	Template:UK	for spectacular contributions to number theory and related fields, major advances on fundamental conjectures, and for settling Fermat's Last Theorem.
1996/97	Joseph B. Keller	Template:USA	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	Template:RUS Template:USA	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	Template:HUN Template:USA	for his outstanding contributions to combinatorics, theoretical computer science and combinatorial optimization.
	Elias M. Stein	Template:USA	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	Template:HUN Template:USA	for his deep discoveries in topology and differential geometry and their applications to Lie groups, differential operators and mathematical physics.
	Jean-Pierre Serre	Template:FRA	for his many fundamental contributions to topology, algebraic geometry, algebra, and number theory and for his inspirational lectures and writing.
2001	Vladimir Arnold	Template:RUS	for his deep and influential work in a multitude of areas of mathematics, including dynamical systems, differential equations, and singularity theory.
	Saharon Shelah	Template:ISR	for his many fundamental contributions to mathematical logic and set theory, and their applications within other parts of mathematics.
2002/03	Mikio Sato	Template:JPN	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	Template:USA	for his creation of fundamental concepts in algebraic number theory.
2004	No award
2005	Gregory Margulis	Template:RUS Template:USA	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	Template:RUS	for his fundamental and pioneering contributions to algebraic and differential topology, and to mathematical physics, notably the introduction of algebraic-geometric methods.
2006/07	Stephen Smale	Template:USA	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	Template:USA Template:ISR	for his profound contributions to ergodic theory, probability, topological dynamics, analysis on symmetric spaces and homogeneous flows.
2008	Pierre Deligne	Template:BEL	for his work on mixed Hodge theory; the Weil conjectures; the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence; and for his contributions to arithmetic.
	Phillip A. Griffiths	Template:USA	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	Template:USA	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	Template:USA	for his work in geometric analysis that has had a profound and dramatic impact on many areas of geometry and physics.
	Dennis P. Sullivan	Template:USA	for his innovative contributions to algebraic topology and conformal dynamics.
2011	No award
2012	Michael Aschbacher	Template:USA	for his work on the theory of finite groups.
	Luis Caffarelli	Template:ARG	for his work on partial differential equations.
2013	George D. Mostow	Template:USA	for his fundamental and pioneering contribution to geometry and Lie group theory.
	Michael Artin	Template:USA	for his fundamental contributions to algebraic geometry, both in commutative and noncommutative.
2014	Peter Sarnak	Template:ZAF Template:USA	for his deep contributions in analysis, number theory, geometry, and combinatorics.
2015	James G. Arthur	Template:CAN	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	Template:USA	for his contributions to geometric analysis and the understanding of the interconnectedness of partial differential equations and differential geometry.
	Charles Fefferman	Template:USA	for his contributions in a number of mathematical areas including complex multivariate analysis, partial differential equations and sub-elliptical problems.
2018	Alexander Beilinson	Template:RUS Template:USA	for their work that has made significant progress at the interface of geometry and mathematical physics.
	Vladimir Drinfeld	Template:UKR Template:USA
2019	Jean-Francois Le Gall	Template:FRA	for his several deep and elegant contributions to the theory of stochastic processes.
	Gregory Lawler	Template:USA	for his comprehensive and pioneering research on erased loops and random walks.<ref>Wolf Prize 2019 - Mathematics</ref>
2020	Simon K. Donaldson	Template:UK	for their contributions to differential geometry and topology.<ref>Wolf Prize 2020 - Mathematics</ref>
	Yakov Eliashberg	Template:USA
2021	No award
2022	George Lusztig	Template:ROU Template:USA Template:HUN	for his groundbreaking contributions to representation theory and related areas.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2023	Ingrid Daubechies	Template:BEL Template:USA	for her work in wavelet theory and applied harmonic analysis.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2024	Adi Shamir	Template:ISR	for his fundamental contributions to Mathematical Cryptography.<ref>Wolf Prize 2024 - Mathematics</ref>
	Noga Alon	Template:ISR	for his fundamental contributions to Combinatorics and Theoretical Computer Science.<ref>Wolf Prize 2024 - Mathematics</ref>
2025	No award

Laureates per country

Below is a chart of all laureates per country (updated to 2024 laureates). Some laureates are counted more than once if they have multiple citizenships.

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See also

• List of mathematics awards

External links

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• Israel-Wolf-Prizes 2015
• Jerusalempost Wolf Prizes 2017
• Jerusalempost Wolf Prizes 2018
• Wolf Prize 2019