The International János Bolyai Prize of Mathematics is an international prize founded by the

Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( hu, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, MTA) is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. Its ma ...

. The prize is named after

János Bolyai János Bolyai (; 15 December 1802 – 27 January 1860) or Johann Bolyai, was a Hungarian mathematician, who developed absolute geometry—a geometry that includes both Euclidean geometry and hyperbolic geometry. The discovery of a consis ...

and is awarded every five years to

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

s for

monograph A monograph is a specialist work of writing (in contrast to reference works) or exhibition on a single subject or an aspect of a subject, often by a single author or artist, and usually on a scholarly subject. In library cataloging, ''monogra ...

s with important new results in the preceding 10 years.

Medalists

* 1905 –

Henri Poincaré Jules Henri Poincaré ( S: stress final syllable ; 29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as "Th ...

* 1910 –

David Hilbert David Hilbert (; ; 23 January 1862 – 14 February 1943) was a German mathematician, one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many ...

* 2000 –

Saharon Shelah Saharon Shelah ( he, שהרן שלח; born July 3, 1945) is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Rutgers University in New Jersey. Biography Shelah was born in Jerusalem on July 3, ...

for his ''Cardinal Arithmetic'', Oxford University Press, 1994. * 2005 – Mikhail Gromov for his ''Metric Structures for Riemannian and Non-Riemannian Spaces'', Birkhäuser, 1999. * 2010 – Yuri I. Manin for his ''Frobenius Manifolds, Quantum Cohomology, and Moduli Spaces'', American Mathematical Society, 1999. * 2015 –

Barry Simon Barry Martin Simon (born 16 April 1946) is an American mathematical physicist and was the IBM professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Caltech, known for his prolific contributions in spectral theory, functional analysis, and no ...

for his ''Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle'', American Mathematical Society, 2005. * 2020 -

Terence Tao Terence Chi-Shen Tao (; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian-American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins chair. His research includes ...

for his ''Nonlinear Dispersive Equations: Local and Global Analysis'', American Mathematical Society, 2006.

References

Mathematics awards Lists of award winners Awards of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Awards established in 1902 {{mathematics-stub

Medalists

See also

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