The Abel Prize is an international prize presented by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. Named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829), the Abel Prize and the Fields Medal have often been described as the "Mathematician’s Nobel Prizes".

We would like to congratulate the 2024 Abel Prize recipient Michel Talagrand, who has been recognized by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters “for his groundbreaking contributions to probability theory and functional analysis, with outstanding applications in mathematical physics and statistics.”

Text originally appeared on abelprize.no. Karen Uhlenbeck first woman to win the Abel Prize. The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2019 to Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck of the University of Texas at Austin, USA “for her pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory and integrable systems, …

Abel Prize - 2021. Together with László Lovász for their foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, and their leading role in shaping them into central fields of modern mathematics.

Congratulations to 2025 Abel Prize Recipient, Masaki Kashiwara! The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA) has annouced that the 2025 Abel Prize is being awarded to the mathematician Masaki Kashiwara, who is being recognized "for his fundamental contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory, in particular the development of the theory of D …

Each year the recipients of the most prestigious awards in mathematics and computer science, the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize are invited to participate in the Forum.

Jan 11, 2019 · Abel Prize - 2004. Along with Isadore M. Singer for their discovery and proof of the index theorem, bringing together topology, geometry and analysis, and their outstanding role in building new bridges between mathematics and theoretical physics.

The Fields Medal, established in 1936 and named after the Canadian mathematician J. C. Fields, is one of the most prestigious awards in the field of mathematics and often described as the "Nobel Prize of Mathematics".

We would like to congratulate Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis on receiving the Abel Prize for 2020! They were recognized by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters "for pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in …

Abel Prize - 2016. For his stunning proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem by way of the modularity conjecture for semistable elliptic curves, opening a new era in number theory.