{{Short description, Award of the American Mathematical Society
The Blumenthal Award was founded by the
American Mathematical Society
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in 1993 in memory of Leonard M. and Eleanor B. Blumenthal.
The award was presented to the individual deemed to have made the most substantial contribution in research in the field of pure mathematics, and who was deemed to have the potential for future production of distinguished research in such field. It was awarded every four years for the most substantial Ph.D. thesis produced in the four year interval between awards. The fund that supported the award was discontinued and, thus, the award is no longer being made.
Winners
*1993 –
Zhihong Xia
Zhihong "Jeff" Xia (; born 20 September 1962 in Dongtai, Jiangsu, China) is a Chinese-American mathematician.
Education and career
Xia received in 1982 from Nanjing University a bachelor's degree in astronomy and in 1988 a PhD in mathematics fro ...
*1997 –
Loïc Merel
Loïc Merel (born 13 August 1965) is a French mathematician. His research interests include modular forms and number theory.
Career
Born in Carhaix-Plouguer, Brittany, Merel became a student at the École Normale Supérieure. He finished his doc ...
Elon Lindenstrauss
Elon Lindenstrauss ( he, אילון לינדנשטראוס, born August 1, 1970) is an Israeli mathematician, and a winner of the 2010 Fields Medal.
Since 2004, he has been a professor at Princeton University. In 2009, he was appointed to Profess ...
*2005 –
Manjul Bhargava
Manjul Bhargava (born 8 August 1974) is a Canadian-American mathematician. He is the Brandon Fradd, Class of 1983, Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, the Stieltjes Professor of Number Theory at Leiden University, and also holds A ...
*2009 –
Maryam Mirzakhani
Maryam Mirzakhani ( fa, مریم میرزاخانی, ; 12 May 1977 – 14 July 2017) was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ...