mathematics
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award, funded by the estate of the widow of mathematician Stefan Bergman and supported by the
American Mathematical Society
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. The award is granted for mathematical research in: "1) the theory of the
kernel function In operator theory, a branch of mathematics, a positive-definite kernel is a generalization of a positive-definite function or a positive-definite matrix. It was first introduced by James Mercer in the early 20th century, in the context of solving ...
and its applications in real and complex analysis; or 2) function-theoretic methods in the theory of
partial differential equations
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of elliptic type with attention to Bergman's operator method."
The award is given in honor of Stefan Bergman, a
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
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known for his work on
complex analysis
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. Recipients of the prize are selected by a committee of judges appointed by the American Mathematical Society. The monetary value of the prize is variable and based on the income from the prize fund; in 2005 the award was valued at approximately $17,000.
Charles Fefferman
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* 1993
Yum-Tong Siu
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Masatake Kuranishi
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Sidney Webster
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Linda Preiss Rothschild
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* 2005
Elias Stein
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Alexander Nagel
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He received in 1966 ...
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Stephen Wainger
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* 2009
Ngaiming Mok
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After graduating from St. Paul's Co-educational College i ...
Steve Zelditch
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Zelditch received in 1975 from Harvard Universi ...
Eric Bedford
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Jean-Pierre Demailly
Jean-Pierre Demailly (25 September 1957 – 17 March 2022) was a French mathematician who worked in complex geometry. He was a professor at Université Grenoble Alpes and a permanent member of the French Academy of Sciences.
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Nessim Sibony
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Aline Bonami
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, Peter Ebenfelt
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List of mathematics awards
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