Awards & Winners

Fermat Prize

Fermat Prize

The Fermat prize of mathematical research bi-annually rewards research works in fields where the contributions of Pierre de Fermat have been decisive: Statements of variational principles Foundations of probability and analytic geometry Number theory. The spirit of the prize is focused on rewarding the results of researches accessible to the greatest number of professional mathematicians within these fields. The Fermat prize was created in 1989 and is awarded once every two years in Toulouse by the Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse. The amount of the Fermat prize has been fixed at 20,000 Euros for the twelfth edition.
Date Established : 1989

Check all the winners of Fermat Prize presented under Fermat Prize since 1989 .


Camillo De Lellis

(For his fundamental contributions (in collaboration with László Székelyhidi) to the conjecture of Onsager about dissipative solutions of the Euler-equations and for his work to the regularity of minimal surfaces.)

Martin Hairer

(For his contributions to the analysis of stochastic partial differential equations, especially for the regularity of their solutions and convergence to the equilibrium.)

Manjul Bhargava

(For his work on various generalizations of the Davenport-Heilbronn estimates and for his recent startling results (with Arul Shankar) on the average rank of elliptic curves.)

Igor Rodnianski

(For his fundamental contributions to the studies of the equations of general relativity and to the propagation of the light on the space-time curves (in collaboration with Mihalis Dafermos, Sergiu Klainerman, and Hans Lindblad).)

Elon Lindenstrauss

(For his contributions to ergodic theory and their applications in number theory.)

Cédric Villani

(For his contributions to the theory of optimal transport and his studies of non-linear evolution equations.)

Chandrashekhar Khare

(For his proof (with Jean-Pierre Wintenberger) of the Serre modularity conjecture in number theory.)

Jean-François Le Gall

(For his contributions to the fine analysis of planar Brownian motions, his invention of the Brownian snake and its applications to the study of non-linear partial differential equations.)

Pierre Colmez

(For his contributions to the study of L-functions and p-adic Galois representations.)

Luigi Ambrosio

(For his impressive contributions to the calculus of variations and geometric measure theory, and their link with partial differential equations.)

Wendelin Werner

(For his works on the intersection exponents of Brownian motion and their impact in theoretical Physics.)

Richard Taylor

(For his various contributions to the study of links between Galois representations and automorphic forms.)

Fabrice Bethuel, Frédéric Hélein

(For several important contributions to the theory of variational calculus, which have consequences in Physics and Geometry.)

Michel Talagrand

(For his fundamental contributions in various domains of probability.)

Andrew Wiles

(For his works on the Shimura\u2013Taniyama\u2013Weil conjecture which resulted in the demonstration of the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.)

Jean-Michel Coron

(For his contributions to the study of variational problems and control theory.)

Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène

(For his work on number theory and rational manifolds the research for which was undertaken to a large extent with Jean-Jacques Sansuc.)

Abbas Bahri

(For the introduction of new methods in the calculus of variations.)

Kenneth Alan Ribet

(For his contribution to number theory and Fermat's Last Theorem.)