THE 2008 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

The Prize Committee for Mathematics has unanimously decided that the 2008 Wolf Prize will be jointly awarded to:

Pierre R. Deligne
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
for his work on mixed Hodge theory; the Weil conjectures; the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence; and for his contributions to arithmetic.

Phillip A. Griffiths
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
for his work on variations of Hodge structures; the theory of periods of abelian integrals; and for his contributions to complex differential geometry.

David B. Mumford
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
for his work on algebraic surfaces; on geometric invariant theory; and for laying the foundations of the modern algebraic theory of moduli of curves and theta functions.

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THE 2006/7 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

The Prize Committee for Mathematics has unanimously decided that the 2006/7 Wolf Prize will be jointly awarded to:

Stephen Smale
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, California, USA
for his groundbreaking contributions that have played a fundamental role in shaping differential topology, dynamical systems, mathematical economics, and other subjects in mathematics

and
Harry Furstenberg
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel
for his profound contributions to ergodic theory, probability, topological dynamics, analysis on symmetric spaces and homogenous flows.

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THE 2005 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Gregory A. Margulis
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, USA

for his monumental contributions to algebra, in particular to the theory of lattices in semi-simple Lie groups, and striking applications of this to ergodic theory, representation theory, number theory, combinatorics, and measure theory, and

Sergei P. Novikov
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland, USA; and
L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
Moscow, Russia

for his fundamental and pioneering contributions to algebraic and differential topology, and to mathematical physics, notably the introduction of algebraic-geometric methods

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THE 2002/3 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Mikio Sato
Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan

for his creation of “algebraic analysis”, including hyperfunction and microfunction theory, holonomic quantum field theory, and a unified theory of soliton equations.

John T. Tate
University of Texas
Austin, Texas, USA

for his creation of fundamental concepts in algebraic number theory.

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THE 2001 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Vladimir I. Arnold
Steklov Mathematical Institute
Moscow, Russia, and
University Paris-Dauphine
Paris, France

for his deep and influential work in a multitude of areas of mathematics, including dynamical systems, differential equations, and singularity theory.

Saharon Shelah
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel

for his many fundamental contributions to mathematical logic and set theory, and their applications within other parts of mathematics.

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THE 2000 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Raoul Bott
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
for his deep discoveries in topology and differencial geometry and their applications to Lie groups, differential operators and mathematical physics.

Jean-Pierre Serre
College de France
Paris, France

for his many fundamental contributions to topology, algebraic geometry, algebra, and number theory and his inspirational lectures and writing.

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THE 1999 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Laszlo Lovasz
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, USA, and
Eotvos University
Budapest, Hungary

for his outstanding contributions to combinatorics, theoretical computer science and combinatorial optimization.

Elias M. Stein
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

for his contributions to classical and "Euclidean" Fourier analysis and for his exceptional impact on a new generation of analysts through his eloquent teaching and writing.

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THE 1996/7 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Joseph B. Keller
Stanford University
Stanford, California, USA

for his innovative contributions, in particular to electromagnetic, optical, acoustic wave propagation and to fluid, solid, quantum and statistical mechanics.

Yakov G. Sinai
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey, USA, and
Landau Institute of Theroetical Physics
Moscow, Russia

for his fundamental contributions to mathematically rigorous methods in statistical mechanics and the ergodic theory of dynamical systems and their applications in physics.

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THE 1995/6 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Robert P. Langlands
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

for his path-blazing work and extraordinary insight in the fields of number thory, automorphic forms and group representation.

Andrew J. Wiles
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

for spectacular contributions to number theory and related fields, major advances on fundamental conjectures, and for settling Fermat’s last theorem.

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THE 1994/5 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Jurgen K. Moser
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Zurich, Switzerland

for his fundamental work on stability in Hamiltonian mechanics and his profound and influential contributions to nonlinear differential equations.

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THE 1993 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Mikhael Gromov
IHES - Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques
Bures-sur-Yvette, France

for his revolutionary contributions to global Riemmanian and symplectic geometry, algebraic topology, geometric group theory and the theory of partial differential equations.

Jacques Tits
College de France
Paris, France

for his pioneering and fundamental contributions to the theory of the structure of algebraic and other classes of groups and in particular for the theory of buildings.

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THE 1992 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Lennart A. E. Carleson
University of Uppsala
Uppsala, Sweden, and
University of California
Los Angeles, California, USA

for his fundamental contributions to Fourier analysis, complex analysis, quasi-conformal mappings and dynamical systems.

John G. Thompson
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

for his profound contributions to all aspects of finite group theory and connections with other branches of mathematics.

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THE 1990 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Ennio De Giorgi
Scuola Normale Superiore
Pisa, Italy

for his innovating ideas and fundamental achievements in partial differential equations and calculus of variations.

Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
Tel-Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel

for his fundamental contributions in the fields of homogeneous complex domains, discrete groups, representation theory and automorphic forms.

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THE 1989 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Alberto P. Calderon
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, USA

for his groundbreaking work on singular integral operators and their application to important problems in partial differential equations.

John W. Milnor
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

for ingenious and highly original discoveries in geometry, which have opened important new vistas in topology from the algebraic, combinatorial, and differentiable viewpoint.

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THE 1988 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Friedrich Hirzebruch
Max-Planck-Institut and University of Bonn
Bonn, Germany

for outstanding work combining topology, algebraic and differential geometry, and algebraic number theory; and for his stimulation of mathematical cooperation and research.

Lars Hormander
University of Lund
Lund, Sweden

for fundamental work in modern analysis, in particular, the application of pseudo-differential and Fourier integral operators to linear partial differential equations.

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THE 1987 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Kiyoshi Ito
Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan

for his fundamental contributions to pure and applied probability theory, especially the creation of the stochastic differential and integral calculus.

Peter D. Lax
New York University
New York, N.Y., USA

for his outstanding contributions to many areas of analysis and applied mathematics.

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THE 1986 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Samuel Eilenberg
Columbia University
New York, N.Y., USA

for his fundamental work in algebraic topology and homological algebra.

Atle Selberg
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

for his profound and original work on number theory and on discrete groups and automorphic forms.

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THE 1984/5 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Kunihiko Kodaira
The Japan Academy
Tokyo, Japan

for his outstanding contributions to the study of complex manifolds and algebraic varieties.

Hans Lewy
University of California
Berkeley, California, USA

for initiating many, now classic and essential, developments in partial differential equations.

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THE 1983/4 WOLF FOUNDATON PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Shiing S. Chern
University of California
Berkeley, California, USA

for outstanding contributions to global differential geometry, which have profoundly influenced all mathematics.

Paul Erdos
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Budapest, Hungary

for his numerous contributions to number theory, combinatorics, probability, set theory and mathematical analysis, and for personally stimulating mathematicians the world over.

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THE 1982 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Hassler Whitney
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

for his fundamental work in algebraic topology, differential geometry and differential topology.

Mark G. Krein
Ukrainian S.S.R. Academy of Sciences
Odessa, U.S.S.R.

for his fundamental contributions to functional analysis and its applications.

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THE 1981 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Lars V. Ahlfors
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

for seminal discoveries and the creation of powerful new methods in geometric function theory.

Oscar Zariski
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

creator of the modern approach to algebraic geometry, by its fusion with commutative algebra.

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THE 1980 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Henri Cartan
Universite de Paris
Paris, France

for pioneering work in algebraic topology, complex variables, homological algebra and inspired leadership of a generation of mathematicians.

Andrei N. Kolmogorov
Moscow State University
Moscow, U.S.S.R.

for deep and original discoveries in Fourier analysis, probability theory, ergodic theory and dynamical systems.

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THE 1979 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Jean Leray
College de France
Paris, France

for pioneering work on the development and application of topological methods to the study of differential equations.

Andre Weil
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

for his inspired introduction of algebro-geometry methods to the theory of numbers.

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THE 1978 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Izrail M. Gelfand
Moscow State University
Moscow, U.S.S.R.

for his work in functional analysis, group representation, and for his seminal contributions to many areas of mathematics and its applications.

Carl L. Siegel
Georg-August University
Goettingen, Germany

for his contributions to the theory of numbers, theory of several complex variables, and celestial mechanics.

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