The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has three prizes named after

George Pólya George Pólya (; hu, Pólya György, ; December 13, 1887 – September 7, 1985) was a Hungarian mathematician. He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University. He made fundamenta ...

: the George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition, established in 2013; the George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics, established in 1969, and first awarded in 1971; and the George Pólya Prize in Mathematics, established in 1992, to complement the exposition and applied combinatorics prizes.

Frank Harary Frank Harary (March 11, 1921 – January 4, 2005) was an American mathematician, who specialized in graph theory. He was widely recognized as one of the "fathers" of modern graph theory. Harary was a master of clear exposition and, together with ...

and

William T. Tutte William Thomas Tutte OC FRS FRSC (; 14 May 1917 – 2 May 2002) was an English and Canadian codebreaker and mathematician. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a majo ...

donated money to establish the original 1969 prize in combinatorics. Currently, funding for the three SIAM prizes is provided by the estate of Stella Pólya, the wife of George Pólya.

Combinatorics Winners

* 1971 Ronald L. Graham, Klaus Leeb,

B. L. Rothschild Bruce Lee Rothschild (born August 26, 1941) is an American mathematician and educator, specializing in combinatorial mathematics. He is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Early life and education Roth ...

, A. W. Hales, and R. I. Jewett * 1975

Richard P. Stanley Richard Peter Stanley (born June 23, 1944) is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 2000 to 2010, he was the Norman Levinson Professor of Applied Mathematics. He r ...

Endre Szemerédi Endre Szemerédi (; born August 21, 1940) is a Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist, working in the field of combinatorics and theoretical computer science. He has been the State of New Jersey Professor of computer science ...

, and Richard M. Wilson * 1979

László Lovász László Lovász (; born March 9, 1948) is a Hungarian mathematician and professor emeritus at Eötvös Loránd University, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the 2021 Abel Prize jointly with Avi Wigderson. He wa ...

* 1983

Anders Björner Anders Björner (born 17 December 1947) received his Ph.D. from Stockholm University in 1979, under Bernt Lindström. He is a Swedish professor of mathematics, in the Department of Mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Swe ...

and Paul Seymour * 1987

Andrew Yao Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (; born December 24, 1946) is a Chinese computer scientist and computational theorist. He is currently a professor and the dean of Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) at Tsinghua University. Yao use ...

* 1992

Gil Kalai Gil Kalai (born 1955) is the Henry and Manya Noskwith Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Professor of Computer Science at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, and adjunct Professor of mathematics ...

and Saharon Shelah * 1994

Gregory Chudnovsky David Volfovich Chudnovsky (born January 22, 1947 in Kyiv) and Gregory Volfovich Chudnovsky (born April 17, 1952 in Kyiv) are Ukrainian-born American mathematicians and engineers known for their world-record mathematical calculations and developing ...

and

Harry Kesten Harry Kesten (November 19, 1931 – March 29, 2019) was an American mathematician best known for his work in probability, most notably on random walks on groups and graphs, random matrices, branching processes, and percolation theory. Biograp ...

* 1996

Jeff Kahn Jeffry Ned Kahn is a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University notable for his work in combinatorics. Education Kahn received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1979 after completing his dissertation under his advisor Dijen K. Ray-Cha ...

and

David Reimer David Reimer (born Bruce Peter Reimer; 22 August 1965 – 4 May 2004) was a Canadian man born male but raised as a girl following medical advice and intervention after his penis was severely injured during a botched circumcision in infancy. ...

* 1998

Percy Deift Percy Alec Deift (born September 10, 1945) is a mathematician known for his work on spectral theory, integrable systems, random matrix theory and Riemann–Hilbert problems. Life Deift was born in Durban, South Africa, where he obtained degrees ...

, Xin Zhou, and

Peter Sarnak Peter Clive Sarnak (born 18 December 1953) is a South African-born mathematician with dual South-African and American nationalities. Sarnak has been a member of the permanent faculty of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced St ...

* 2000

Noga Alon Noga Alon ( he, נוגה אלון; born 17 February 1956) is an Israeli mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Princeton University noted for his contributions to combinatorics and theoretical computer science, having authored hundreds of ...

* 2002

Craig Tracy Craig Arnold Tracy (born September 9, 1945) is an American mathematician, known for his contributions to mathematical physics and probability theory. Born in United Kingdom, he moved as infant to Missouri where he grew up and obtained a B.Sc. i ...

and

Harold Widom Harold Widom (September 23, 1932 – January 20, 2021) was an American mathematician best known for his contributions to operator theory and random matrices. He was appointed to the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa ...

* 2004

Neil Robertson Neil Robertson (born 11 February 1982) is an Australian professional snooker player who is a former world champion and former world number one. The only Australian to have won a ranking event, he is also the only player from outside the United ...

and Paul Seymour * 2006 Gregory F. Lawler,

Oded Schramm Oded Schramm ( he, עודד שרם; December 10, 1961 – September 1, 2008) was an Israeli-American mathematician known for the invention of the Schramm–Loewner evolution (SLE) and for working at the intersection of conformal field theory ...

Wendelin Werner Wendelin Werner (born 23 September 1968) is a German-born French mathematician working on random processes such as self-avoiding random walks, Brownian motion, Schramm–Loewner evolution, and related theories in probability theory and mathematica ...

* 2008 Van H. Vu * 2010

Emmanuel Candès Emmanuel Jean Candès (born 27 April 1970) is a French statistician. He is a professor of statistics and electrical engineering (by courtesy) at Stanford University, where he is also the Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics. Candès ...

and Terence Tao * 2012

Vojtěch Rödl Vojtěch Rödl (born 1 April 1949) is a Czech American mathematician, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at Emory University. He is noted for his contributions mainly to combinatorics having authored hundreds of research papers. Academic Background ...

and Mathias Schacht * 2014 Adam Marcus,

Daniel Spielman Daniel Alan Spielman (born March 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) has been a professor of applied mathematics and computer science at Yale University since 2006. As of 2018, he is the Sterling Professor of Computer Science at Yale. He is a ...

and

Nikhil Srivastava Nikhil Srivastava is an associate professor of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley. In July 2014, he was named a recipient of the Pólya Prize with Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman. Early life and education Nikhil Srivastava was bo ...

* 2016 Jozsef Balogh, Robert Morris, and

Wojciech Samotij Wojciech Samotij is a Poles, Polish mathematician who works in combinatorics, additive number theory, Ramsey theory and graph theory. Education and career He studied at the University of Wrocław where in 2007 he obtained his Master of Science ...

, David Saxton and Andrew Thomason * 2018 No Award Given * 2021 Assefaw Gebremedhin, Fredrik Manne, Alex Pothen * 2022

Antti Kupiainen Antti Kupiainen (born 23 June 1954, Varkaus, Finland) is a Finnish mathematical physicist. Education and career Kupiainen completed his undergraduate education in 1976 at the Technical University of Helsinki and received his Ph.D. in 1979 from Pri ...

, Rémi Rhodes, Vincent Vargas (List of winners fro
Pólya Prize page
at SIAM website.)

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Combinatorics Winners

See also

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