| The Abel Prize is an international prize presented by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. Named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel, the award was established in 2001 by the Government of Norway and complements the Holberg Prize in the humanities, social sciences, law and theology. The Abel Prize has often been described as the "mathematician's Nobel prize". It comes with a monetary award of 6 million Norwegian kroner, to be used to fund future research. The prize board has also established an Abel symposium, administered by the Norwegian Mathematical Society. The award ceremony takes place in the Atrium of the University of Oslo Faculty of Law, where the Nobel Peace Prize was formerly awarded between 1947 and 1989. A prize in honour of Abel was first proposed by Sophus Lie. Lie's death marked an interruption in the establishment of the award, and King Oscar II's attempt to establish the award in 1902 was unsuccessful, complicated by the dissolution of the union between Sweden and Norway three years later. |
Check all the winners of Abel Prize presented under Abel Prize since 2003 .
Pierre Deligne(For seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact on number theory, representation theory, and related fields.) |
Endre Szemerédi(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.) |
John Milnor(For pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry and algebra.) |
John Tate(For his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers.) |
Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov(For his revolutionary contributions to geometry.) |
John G. Thompson, Jacques Tits(For their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory.) |
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan(For his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviations.) |
Lennart Carleson(For his profound and seminal contributions to harmonic analysis and the theory of smooth dynamical systems.) |
Peter Lax(For his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions.) |
Michael Atiyah, Isadore Singer(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.) |
Jean-Pierre Serre(For playing a key role in shaping the modern form of many parts of mathematics, including topology, algebraic geometry and number theory.) |
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