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International Mathematical Union (IMU) - Prizes
The fields medal recognizes outstanding mathematical achievement. The FieldsMedal was first awarded in 1936, the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize in 1982.
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Extractions: for Applications of Mathematics IMU Prizes are awarded every four years at the Opening Ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians ( ICM ). The Fields Medal recognizes outstanding mathematical achievement. The Rolf Nevanlinna Prize honors distinguished achievements in mathematical aspects of information science. The Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize is awarded for outstanding mathematical contributions that have found significant applications outside of mathematics. The Fields Medal was first awarded in 1936, the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize in 1982. The Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize will be awarded for the first time in 2006. About two years in advance of an award the IMU Executive Committee appoints a Selection Committee along the lines of the Prize Statutes and the IMU By-Laws. The Abel Prize
International Mathematical Union (IMU) - Prizes
Honors given for both existing work and the promise of future achievement. Lists background behind and recipients of these awards.
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Extractions: for Applications of Mathematics IMU Prizes are awarded every four years at the Opening Ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians ( ICM ). The Fields Medal recognizes outstanding mathematical achievement. The Rolf Nevanlinna Prize honors distinguished achievements in mathematical aspects of information science. The Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize is awarded for outstanding mathematical contributions that have found significant applications outside of mathematics. The Fields Medal was first awarded in 1936, the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize in 1982. The Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize will be awarded for the first time in 2006. About two years in advance of an award the IMU Executive Committee appoints a Selection Committee along the lines of the Prize Statutes and the IMU By-Laws. The Abel Prize
Fields Medals And Rolf Nevanlinna Prize
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International Mathematical Union (IMU) Fields Medal
fields medal The article Henry S. Tropp, The Origins and History of thefields medal , Historia Mathematica 3 (1976) 167181.
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Extractions: Fields Medal Home General Members Organization ... Contact The Fields Medal is awarded every four years on the occasion of the International Congress of Mathematicians to recognize outstanding mathematical achievement for existing work and for the promise of future achievement. The Fields Medal Committee is chosen by the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union and is normally chaired by the IMU President. It is asked to choose at least two, with a strong preference for four, Fields Medallists, and to have regard in its choice to representing a diversity of mathematical fields. A candidate's 40th birthday must not occur before January 1st of the year of the Congress at which the Fields Medals are awarded. The name of the Chair of the Committee is made public, but the names of other members of the Committee remain anonymous until the award of the prize at the Congress. If a former student (Ph.D. thesis only) of a Committee member is seriously considered, such a member shall not continue to serve on the Committee for is final decision. At the 1924 International Congress of Mathematicians in Toronto, a resolution was adopted that at each ICM, two gold medals should be awarded to recognize outstanding mathematical achievement. Professor J. C. Fields, a Canadian mathematician who was Secretary of the 1924 Congress, later donated funds establishing the medals, which were named in his honor. In 1966 it was agreed that, in light of the great expansion of mathematical research, up to four medals could be awarded at each Congress.
Prof. W.T. Gowers, FRS
Analysis, combinatorics, number theory. fields medal 1998.
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Fields Medal Winners
fields medal Winners. The fields medal has been awarded quadrennially since 1936 by the International Congress of Mathematicians in Toronto to
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Fields Medal -- From MathWorld
The fields medal is the highest scientific award for mathematicians, The firstfields medal was awarded in 1936 at the World Congress in Oslo.
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Extractions: MATHWORLD - IN PRINT Order book from Amazon History and Terminology Prizes Recreational Mathematics ... Barran Fields Medal The Fields Medals are commonly regarded as mathematics' closest analog to the Nobel Prize (which does not exist in mathematics), and are awarded every four years by the International Mathematical Union to one or more outstanding researchers. "Fields Medals" are more properly known by their official name, "International medals for outstanding discoveries in mathematics." The Field Medals were first proposed at the 1924 International Congress of Mathematicians in Toronto, where a resolution was adopted stating that at each subsequent conference, two gold medals should be awarded to recognize outstanding mathematical achievement. Professor J. C. Fields, a Canadian mathematician who was secretary of the 1924 Congress, later donated funds establishing the medals which were named in his honor. Consistent with Fields' wish that the awards recognize both existing work and the promise of future achievement, it was agreed to restrict the medals to mathematicians not over forty at the year of the Congress. In 1966 it was agreed that, in light of the great expansion of mathematical research, up to four medals could be awarded at each Congress. The Fields Medal is the highest scientific award for mathematicians, and is presented every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians, together with a prize of 15000 Canadian dollars. The first Fields Medal was awarded in 1936 at the World Congress in Oslo. The Fields Medal is made of gold, and shows the head of
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Nevanlinna Prize -- From MathWorld
fields medals and Rolf Nevanlinna Prize. http//www.mathunion.org/medals/. 2002 fields medals and Nevanlinna Prize Awarded. FOCUS Newsletter of the
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Extractions: MATHWORLD - IN PRINT Order book from Amazon History and Terminology Prizes MathWorld Contributors ... Healy Nevanlinna Prize The Nevanlinna Prize is awarded by the International Mathematical Union to outstanding contributors to the mathematical aspects of information science. The International Mathematical Union is the organization that awards the prestigious Fields medal , and both awards are presented at the International Congress of Mathematics. Winners receive a gold medal and cash prize similar to the prizes received by Fields Medal winners. The Nevanlinna prize was first presented in 1983 at the Warsaw congress. The International Mathematical Union has clarified the intent of the prize to be related to the mathematical aspects of information science, including the following. 1. All mathematical aspects of computer science (e.g., complexity theory , logic of programming languages, machine models, cryptography).
Prof. A. Baker, FRS
University of Cambridge. Number theory, transcendence, logarithmic forms, effective methods, Diophantine geometry, Diophantine analysis. fields medal, FRS.
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Extractions: Personal Home Page Research Interests: Baker's Theorem on the linear independence of logarithms of algebraic numbers has been the key to a vast range of developments in number theory over the past thirty years. Amongst the most significant are applications to the effective solution of Diophantine equations, to the resolution of class-number problems, to the theory of p-adic L-functions and especially, through works of Masser and WÃ¼stholz, to many deep aspects of arithmetical algebraic geometry. The theory continues to be a source of much fruitful research to the present day.
Fields Medal
To read Fields' original letter and see a list of all the fields medal recipients from 1936 to 1994, click fields medal.
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Fields Medal
To fit with these wishes fields medals may only be awarded to mathematicans underthe age of 40. More details of the fields medals are available at
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Extractions: John Charles Fields ' Will established the Fields Medal, which has played the role of the Nobel Prize in Mathematics. The International Congress of Mathematicians at Zurich in 1932 adopted his proposal, and the Fields Medal was first awarded at the next congress, held at Oslo in 1936. Fields Medals were not awarded during World War II so the second Fields Medals were not awarded until 1950. Fields wished that the awards should recognize both existing mathematical work and also the promise of future achievement. To fit with these wishes Fields Medals may only be awarded to mathematicans under the age of 40. In 1998 they were awarded to: Richard E. Borcherds (Cambridge Univ.), for his work in automorphic forms and mathematical physics William T. Gowers (Cambridge Univ.), for his work in functional analysis and combinatorics Maxim Kontsevich (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques and Rutgers Univ.), for his work in algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, and mathematical physics Curtis T. McMullen
ICM Prizes
The fields medal and Nevanlinna Prize to be awarded at the ICM 2002. Lists previous winners.
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TU Berlin - Medieninformation Nr. 182e - 18. August 1998
fields medals and Nevanlinna Prize The fields medal is the highest scientific award for mathematicians.
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Witten
The first major contribution which led to Witten s fields medal was his simpler His fields medal at the 1990 International Congress of Mathematicians
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Extractions: Version for printing Edward Witten studied at Brandeis University and received his B.A. in 1971. From there he went to Princeton receiving his M.A. in 1974 and his Ph.D. in 1976. After completing his doctorate, Witten went to Harvard where he was postdoctoral fellow during session 1976-77 and then a Junior Fellow from 1977 to 1980. In September 1980 Witten was appointed professor of Physics at Princeton. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982 and remained as professor of Physics at Princeton until 1987 when he was appointed as a Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study. Basically Witten is a mathematical physicist and he has a wealth of important publications which are properly in physics. However, as Atiyah writes in [3]:- Although he is definitely a physicist as his list of publications clearly shows his command of mathematics is rivalled by few mathematicians, and his ability to interpret physical ideas in mathematical form is quite unique. Time and again he has surprised the mathematical community by his brilliant application of physical insight leading to new and deep mathematical theorems.
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Atiyah, who will be 75 tomorrow, won the most prestigious prize in maths, the fields medal, in 1966. "But it doesn't carry much money, and
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Fields Institute - The Fields Medal
The history of the fields medal begins in the Committee of the A list of allfields medal winners (with a short description of their work) can be found
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Extractions: September 17, 2005 Home About Us Overview Scientific Advisory Panel ... Search John Charles Fields Mittag-Leffler and Nobel About Us Index The history of the Fields Medal begins in the Committee of the International Congress set up by the University of Toronto in November of 1923, with the purpose of organizing the 1924 Congress to be held in Toronto. Fields was its chairman, and his colleague J.L.Synge the secretary. Although Fields probably conceived of the medal at some earlier time, the first recorded mention of it is in the minutes of a meeting of that committee on February 24, 1931 where it is resolved that the sum of $2,500 should be set apart for two medals to be awarded in connection with successive International Mathematical Congresses through an international committee appointed for such purpose initially by the executive of the International Mathematical Congress, but later by the International Mathematical Union. The $2,500 was evidently the balance on hand after all expenses of the 1924 Congress had been met. Of course, in spite of Fieldss intentions, the medal became known as the Fields Medal when it was awarded for the first time in Oslo in 1936. It is interesting to note that, at the same meeting, it was decided that the Chairman should see the Prime Minister of Canada to arrange if possible how permanence of capital and of interest of the fund might be assured. Such an arrangement was apparently never made, and the monetary value of the Fields Prize is presently $15,000Can (about $9500US), hardly commensurate with its stature as the Nobel Prize in Mathematics.
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Fields Medal - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
The fields medal is a prize awarded to up to four mathematicians (not over The fields medal is often described as the Nobel Prize of mathematics .
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Extractions: The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to up to four mathematicians (not over forty years of age) at each International Congress of International Mathematical Union (therefore once every four years), since and regularly since at the initiative of the Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields . The purpose is to give recognition and support to young mathematical researchers having already made important contributions. The Fields Medal is often described as the " Nobel Prize of mathematics". The comparison is not very accurate, in particular because the age limit is applied strictly. Fields Medals are awarded for a body of work, rather than for a particular result, though there is clearly consensus that some individual theorems can and should be recognised in this way. (That is not to say that some awards from the past have not been in some ways contentious or controversialâthey have.) Since the institution of the Wolf Prizes , there has been a high-profile "lifetime achievement" award in mathematics; this has to some extent redressed perceived imbalances in the weight given to different kinds of merit and the movements of intellectual fashion across mathematics as a whole. edit Laurent Lafforgue (France)
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Awards include the fields medal (1982) and the Crafoord Prize (2001). More information. Here you will find
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