| The Wolf Prize in Mathematics is awarded almost annually 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. Until the establishment of the Abel Prize, the Prize was probably the closest equivalent of a "Nobel Prize in Mathematics", since the more prestigious Fields Medal is only awarded every 4 years to mathematicians under 40. |
Check all the winners of Wolf Prize in Mathematics presented under Wolf Prize since 1978 .
George Mostow(For his fundamental and pioneering contribution to geometry and Lie group theory.) |
Michael Artin(For his fundamental contributions to algebraic geometry, both commutative and non-commutative.) |
Michael Aschbacher(Michael Aschbacher is a principal architect of the classification of finite simple groups. His Impact on the theory of finite groups is extraordinary in its breadth, depth and beauty.) |
Luis Caffarelli(Luis Caffarelli produced outstanding, visionary, original and fundamental work on partial differential equations, in particular on regularity for elliptic and parabolic equations, free boundary problems and fluid mechanics.) |
Shing-Tung Yau(For his work in geometric analysis that has had a profound and dramatic impact on many areas of geometry and physics.) |
Dennis Sullivan(For his innovative contributions to algebraic topology and conformal dynamics.) |
Pierre Deligne(For his work on mixed Hodge theory; the Weil conjectures; the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence; and for his contributions to arithmetic.) |
Phillip Griffiths(For his work on variations of Hodge structures; the theory of periods of abelian integrals; and for his contributions to complex differential geometry.) |
David Mumford(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.) |
Stephen Smale(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(For his profound contributions to ergodic theory, probability, topological dynamics, analysis on symmetric spaces and homogenous flows.) |
Grigory Margulis(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(For his fundamental and pioneering contributions to algebraic and differential topology, and to mathematical physics, notably the introduction of algebraic-geometric methods.) |
Mikio Sato(For his creation of \u201Calgebraic analysis´, including hyperfunction and microfunction theory,holonomic quantum field theory, and a unified theory of soliton equations.) |
John Tate(For his creation of fundamental concepts in algebraic number theory.) |
Vladimir Arnold(For his deep and influential work in a multitude of areas of mathematics, including dynamical systems, differential equations, and singularity theory.) |
Saharon Shelah(For his many fundamental contributions to mathematical logic and set theory, and their applications within other parts of mathematics.) |
Raoul Bott(For his deep discoveries in topology and differential geometry and their applications to Lie groups, differential operators and mathematical physics.) |
Jean-Pierre Serre(For his many fundamental contributions to topology, algebraic geometry, algebra, and number theory and for his inspirational lectures and writing.) |
László Lovász(For his outstanding contributions to combinatorics, theoretical computer science and combinatorial optimization.) |
Elias M. Stein(For his contributions to classical and \u201CEuclidean\u201D Fourier analysis and for his exceptional impact on a new generation of analysts through his eloquent teaching and writing.) |
Joseph Keller(For his profound and innovative contributions, in particular to electromagnetic, optical, acoustic wave propagation and to fluid, solid, quantum and statistical mechanics.) |
Yakov G. Sinai(For his fundamental contributions to mathematically rigorous methods in statistical mechanics and the ergodic theory of dynamical systems and their applications in physics.) |
Robert Langlands(For his path-blazing work and extraordinary insight in the fields of number theory, automorphic forms and group representation.) |
Andrew Wiles(For spectacular contributions to number theory and related fields, major advances on undamental conjectures, and for settling Fermat´s last theorem.) |
Jürgen Moser(For his fundamental work on stability in Hamiltonian and his profound and influential contributions to nonlinear differential equations.) |
Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov(For his revolutionary contributions to global Riemannian and symplectic geometry, algebraic topology, geometric group theory and the theory of partial differential equations.) |
Jacques Tits(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.) |
Lennart Carleson(For his fundamental contributions to Fourier analysis, complex analysis, quasiconformal mappings and dynamical systems.) |
John G. Thompson(For his profound contributions to all aspects of finite group theory and connections with other branches of mathematics.) |
Ennio de Giorgi(For his innovating ideas and fundamental achievements s in partial differential equations and calculus of variations.) |
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro(For his fundamental contributions in the fields of homogeneous complex domains, discrete groups, representation theory and automorphic forms.) |
John Milnor(For ingenious and highly original discoveries in geometry, which have opened important new vistas in topology from the algebraic, combinatorial, and differentiable viewpoint.) |
Alberto Calderón(For his groundbreaking work on singular integral operators and their application to and important problems in partial differential equations.) |
Friedrich Hirzebruch(For outstanding work combining topology, algebraic and differential geometry, and algebraic number theory; and for his stimulation of mathematical cooperation and research.) |
Lars Hörmander(For fundamental work in modern analysis, in particular, the application of pseudo differential and Fourier integral operators to linear partial differential equations.) |
Kiyoshi It?(for his fundamental contributions to pure and applied probability theory, especially the creation of the stochastic differential and integral calculus.) |
Peter Lax(for his outstanding contributions to many areas of analysis and applied mathematics.) |
Samuel Eilenberg(for his fundamental work in algebraic topology and homological algebra.) |
Atle Selberg(for his profound and original work on number theory and on discrete groups and automorphic forms.) |
Kunihiko Kodaira(for his outstanding contributions to the study of complex manifolds and algebraic varieties.) |
Hans Lewy(for initiating many, now classic and essential, developments in partial differential equations.) |
Paul Erd?s(for his numerous contributions to number theory, combinatorics, probability, set theory and mathematical analysis, and for personally stimulating mathematicians the world over.) |
Shiing-Shen Chern(for outstanding contributions to global differential geometry, which have profoundly influenced all mathematics.) |
Hassler Whitney(for his fundamental work in algebraic topology, differential geometry and differential topology.) |
Mark Grigoryevich Krein(for his fundamental contributions to functional analysis and its applications.) |
Lars Ahlfors(for seminal discoveries and the creation of powerful new methods in geometric function theory.) |
Oscar Zariski(creator of the modern approach to algebraic geometry, by its fusion with commutative algebra.) |
Henri Cartan(for pioneering work in algebraic topology, complex variables, homological algebra and inspired leadership of a generation of mathematicians.) |
Andrey Kolmogorov(for deep and original discoveries in Fourier analysis, probability theory, ergodic theory and dynamical systems.) |
Jean Leray(for pioneering work on the development and application of topological methods to the study of differential equations.) |
André Weil(for his inspired introduction of algebraic-geometric methods to the theory of numbers.) |
Israel Gelfand(for his work in functional analysis, group representation, and for his seminal contributions to many areas of mathematics and its applications.) |
Carl Ludwig Siegel(for his contributions to the theory of numbers, theory of several complex variables, and celestial mechanics.) |
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