Ahlfors / Douglas (1936) • Schwartz / Selberg (1950) • Kodaira / Serre (1954) • Roth / Thom (1958) • Hörmander / Milnor (1962) • Atiyah / Cohen / Grothendieck / Smale (1966) • Baker / Hironaka / Novikov / Thompson (1970) • Bombieri / Mumford (1974) • Deligne / Fefferman / Margulis / Quillen (1978) • Connes / Thurston / Yau (1982) • Donaldson / Faltings / Freedman (1986) • Drinfel'd / Jones / Mori / Witten (1990) • Zelmanov / Lions / Bourgain / Yoccoz (1994) • Borcherds / Gowers / Kontsevich / McMullen (1998) • Lafforgue / Voevodsky (2002) • Okounkov / Perelman / Tao / Werner (2006) The obverse of the Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years. ... Jesse Douglas (July 3, 1897 - October 7, 1965) was an American mathematician. ... 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Israel Gelfand / Carl L. Siegel (1978) · Jean Leray / André Weil (1979) · Henri Cartan / Andrey Kolmogorov (1980) · Lars Ahlfors / Oscar Zariski (1981) · Hassler Whitney / Mark Grigoryevich Krein (1982) · Shiing-Shen Chern / Paul Erdős (1983) · Kunihiko Kodaira / Hans Lewy (1984) · Samuel Eilenberg / Atle Selberg (1986) · Kiyoshi Itō / Peter Lax (1987) · Friedrich Hirzebruch / Lars Hörmander (1988) · Alberto Calderón / John Milnor (1989) · Ennio de Giorgi / Ilya Pyatetskii-Shapiro (1990) · Lennart Carleson / John G. Thompson (1992) · Mikhail Gromov / Jacques Tits (1993) · Jürgen Moser (1994) · Robert Langlands / Andrew Wiles (1995) · Joseph Keller / Yakov G. Sinai (1996) · László Lovász / Elias M. Stein (1999) · Raoul Bott / Jean-Pierre Serre (2000) · Vladimir Arnold / Saharon Shelah (2001) · Mikio Sato / John Tate (2002) · Grigory Margulis / Sergei Petrovich Novikov (2005) · Stephen Smale / Hillel Furstenberg (2006) · Pierre Deligne / Phillip A. Griffiths / David B. Mumford (2008) Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics: 1978 Israel M. Gelfand, Carl L. Siegel 1979 Jean Leray, André Weil 1980 Henri Cartan, Andrei Kolmogorov 1981 Lars Ahlfors, Oscar Zariski 1982 Hassler Whitney, Mark Grigoryevich Krein 1983/4 Shiing S. Chern, Paul ErdÅ‘s 1984/5 Kunihiko Kodaira, Hans... Israel Moiseevich Gelfand (Russian: ) (born in 1913) is a prolific mathematician in the field of functional analysis, which he interprets in a broad sense as the mathematics of quantum mechanics. ... Carl Ludwig Siegel (December 31, 1896 – April 4, 1981) was a German mathematician specialising in number theory. ... Jean Leray (7 November 1906-10 November 1998) was a French mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology. ... André Weil (May 6, 1906 - August 6, 1998) (pronounced [1]) was one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, whether measured by his research work, its influence on future work, exposition or breadth. ... Henri Cartan (born July 8, 1904) is a son of Élie Cartan, and is, as his father was, a distinguished and influential French mathematician. ... Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (Russian: Андре́й Никола́евич Колмого́ров) (April 25, 1903 - October 20, 1987) was a Soviet mathematician who made major advances in different academic fields (among them probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics and computational complexity). ... Oscar Zariski was one of the most influential mathematicians working in the field of algebraic geometry in the twentieth century. ... Hassler Whitney (23 March 1907 – 10 May 1989) was an American mathematician who was one of the founders of singularity theory, PhB, Yale University, 1928; MusB, 1929; ScD (Honorary), 1947; PhD, Harvard University, under G.D. Birkhoff, 1932. ... Mark Grigorievich Krein (3 April 1907 - 17 October 1989) was a Ukrainian-Jewish mathematician, one of the major figures of the Soviet school of mathematics. ... Chen Xingshen Shiing-Shen Chern (陳省身; pinyin: Chén XǐngshÄ“n; October 26, 1911 – December 3, 2004) was a Chinese-American mathematician, one of the leading differential geometers of the twentieth century. ... Paul ErdÅ‘s (Hungarian: ErdÅ‘s Pál, in English occasionally Paul Erdos or Paul Erdös, March 26, 1913 – September 20, 1996), was an immensely prolific (and famously eccentric) Hungarian-born mathematician. ... Kunihiko Kodaira (小平 邦彦 Kodaira Kunihiko, 16 March 1915 – 26 July 1997) was a Japanese mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds; and as the founder of the Japanese school of algebraic geometers. ... Hans Lewy (1904 - 1988) was an American mathematician, known for his work on partial differential equations. ... Samuel Eilenberg (September 30, 1913-January 30, 1998) was a Polish mathematician. ... Atle Selberg (born June 17, 1917) is a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of automorphic forms, in particular bringing them into relation with spectral theory. ... Kiyoshi Itō Kiyoshi Itō (Japanese: 伊藤 清, born September 7, 1915) is a Japanese mathematician, was born in Hokusei-cho, Mie Prefecture Japan. ... Peter David Lax (born May 1,1926) is a highly-respected mathematician working in the areas of mathematics. ... Friedrich E.P. Hirzebruch (born 17 October 1927) is a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation. ... Lars Hörmander Lars Valter Hörmander (born 24 January 1931) is a Swedish mathematician and one of the leading experts in partial differential equations. ... Alberto Calderón. ... John Willard Milnor (b. ... Ennio de Giorgi (1928 - 1996) was an Italian mathematician. ... Ilya Pyatetskii-Shapiro is a mathematician, well known for contributions to the theory of Fourier series, bounded homogeneous domains and associated discrete groups, automorphic forms, and algebraic geometry. ... Lennart Carleson (b. ... John Griggs Thompson (born 13 Oct 1932) is a mathematician noted for his work in the field of finite groups. ... Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Russian: Михаил Леонидович Громов (born December 23, 1943, also known as Mikhael Gromov, Michael Gromov, or Misha Gromov) is a mathematician known for important contributions in many different areas of geometry, especially metric geometry, symplectic geometry, and geometric group theory. ... Jacques Tits (born August 12, 1930) is a French mathematician, formerly Belgian. ... Jürgen Moser (1928 – 1999) was a German mathematician who specialized in dynamical systems. ... Robert Langlands (born 1936 in Canada) is one of the most significant mathematicians of the 20th century, with profound insights in number theory and representation theory. ... For the French mathematician with work in the area of elliptic curves, see André Weil. ... Joseph B. Keller (born July 31, 1923, Paterson, New Jersey) is a U.S. mathematician. ... Yakov G. Sinai, Russian: (b. ... László Lovász (1948-) is a Hungarian mathematician, known for work in combinatorics, for which he was in 1999 awarded a Wolf Prize. ... Elias Menachem Stein (born January 13, 1931) is the Albert Baldwin Dod Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. ... Raoul Bott (Harvard University News Office) Raoul Bott, FRS (born September 24, 1923, died December 20, 2005) was a mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense. ... Jean-Pierre Serre (born September 15, 1926) is one of the leading mathematicians of the twentieth century, active in algebraic geometry, number theory and topology. ... Vladimir Igorevich Arnold (Russian: Влади́мир И́горевич Арно́льд, born June 12, 1937 in Odessa, USSR) is one of the worlds most prolific mathematicians. ... Saharon Shelah (, born July 3, 1945 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli mathematician. ... Mikio Sato (佐藤 幹夫, born April 18, 1928) is a Japanese mathematician, working in what he calls algebraic analysis. ... You may be looking for John Tate (boxer) John Torrence Tate, born March 13, 1925 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is an American mathematician, distinguished for many fundamental contributions in algebraic number theory and related areas in algebraic geometry. ... Gregori Aleksandrovich Margulis (first name often given as Gregory, Grigori or Grigory) (born February 24, 1946) is a mathematician known for his far-reaching work on lattices in Lie groups, and the introduction of methods from ergodic theory into diophantine approximation. ... Sergei Petrovich Novikov (also Serguei) (Russian: Сергей Петрович Новиков) (born 20 March 1938) is a Russian mathematician, noted for work in both algebraic topology and soliton theory. ... Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician from Flint, Michigan, and winner of the Fields Medal in 1966. ... Hillel (Harry) Furstenberg is an Israeli mathematician. ... Pierre Deligne, March 2005 Pierre Deligne (born 3 October 1944) is a Belgian mathematician. ... Phillip Griffiths (born 1938) is a American mathematician, known for his work in the field of geometry, and in particular for the complex manifold approach to algebraic geometry. ... David Bryant Mumford (born 11 June 1937) is an American mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and then for research into vision and pattern theory. ...