Abel Prize

Abel Prize " mathematician's  Nobel prizes"

• Awarded for Outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics to one or more outstanding mathematicians (presented by the King of Norway)

• Named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel

• The award ceremony takes place in the Atrium of the University of Oslo Faculty of Law, where the Nobel Peace Prize was formerly awarded between 1947 and 1989.

• It carries a cash award of 6 million Norwegian krone (about €800,000 or $1 million).

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The exceptional Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel was born on 5 August 1802. When he died, only 26 years old, he left a large body of work, including the first proof of the general binomial theorem, which had been stated by Newton and Euler. 

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 Laureates    2003-2013

Year	Laureate(s)	Citizenship
2013	Pierre Deligne	Belgian
2012	Endre Szemerédi	Hungarian American
2011	John Milnor	American
2010	John T. Tate	American
2009	Mikhail Gromov	Russian French
2008	JohnG.Thompson Jacques Tits	American Belgian/French
2007	S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan	Indian American
2006	Lennart Carleson	Swedish
2005	Peter Lax	Hungarian American
2004	MichaelAtiyah Isadore Singer	British American
2003	Jean-Pierre Serre	French

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Abel Prize Laureate 2013

• Belgian mathematician Pierre Deligne, who is regarded as one of the most celebrated mathematicians of the 20th century, has been chosen for this year’s prestigious Abel Prize in Mathematics. 

• In awarding the prize to Professor Deligne, the committee noted: “Deligne’s powerful concepts, ideas, results and methods continue to influence the development of algebraic geometry as well as mathematics as a whole.”

• In particular, his proofs (he gave two proofs!) of the Weil conjecture (and Ramanujan’s conjecture on the tau function as a consequence) stand out both for the beauty and insight that these proofs provided into the links between arithmetic and geometry.

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Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan

 The Abel Prize Laureate 2007 "for his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviations."