Bolyai Prize

The International János Bolyai Prize of Mathematics is an international prize founded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The prize is named after János Bolyai and is awarded every five years[1] to mathematicians for monographs with important new results in the preceding 10 years.

Medalists

  • 1905 – France Henri Poincaré
  • 1910 – Germany David Hilbert
  • 2000 – Israel Saharon Shelah for his Cardinal Arithmetic, Oxford University Press, 1994. ISBN 0198537859[2]
  • 2005 – Russia France Mikhail Gromov for his Metric Structures for Riemannian and Non-Riemannian Spaces, Birkhäuser, 1999. ISBN 0817638989
  • 2010 – Russia Germany Yuri I. Manin for his Frobenius Manifolds, Quantum Cohomology, and Moduli Spaces, American Mathematical Society, 1999. ISBN 0821819178[3]
  • 2015 – United States Israel Barry Simon for his Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle, American Mathematical Society, 2005. ISBN 9780821834466[4]
  • 2020 - AustraliaUnited States Terence Tao for his Nonlinear Dispersive Equations: Local and Global Analysis, American Mathematical Society, 2006. ISBN 9780821841433[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Szénássy B.: Adalékok a Bolyai-díj történetéhez, Természet Világa, 124(1993),7, 291–294.
  2. ^ "Laudation of Shelah on the occasion of winning the Bolyai Prize (in Hungarian)" (PDF).
  3. ^ "Hungarian Academy of Sciences presents the János Bolyai International Mathematical Prize". Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
  4. ^ Bolyai Prize goes to Barry Simon Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine Communication by Hungarian Academy of Sciences (mta.hu). Retrieved 12 April 2015
  5. ^ Hungarian Academy of Sciences (3 May 2021). "Terence Tao is the 2020 winner of the János Bolyai International Mathematical Prize (in Hungarian)". Retrieved 8 August 2021.


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