List of mathematics awards
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This list of mathematics awards contains articles about notable awards for mathematics. The list is organized by the region and country of the organization that sponsors the award, but awards may be open to mathematicians from around the world. Some of the awards are limited to work in a particular field, such as topology or analysis, while others are given for any type of mathematical contribution.
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Asia
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China | Chern Prize (ICCM) | International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians | Chinese mathematicians and those of Chinese descent for exceptional contributions to mathematical research or to public service activities in support of mathematics |
China | Morningside Medal | International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians | Exceptional mathematicians of Chinese descent under age of 45 for achievements in mathematics and applied mathematics |
Hong Kong | Shaw Prize | Shaw Prize Foundation | Outstanding contributions in astronomy, life science and medicine, and mathematical sciences |
India | Infosys Prize in Mathematical Science | Infosys Science Foundation | Outstanding achievements of contemporary researchers and scientists across six categories, including Mathematical Sciences |
India | Ramanujan Prize | Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy | Young mathematician, for outstanding work in Ramanujan's fields of interest |
India | Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal | Indian National Science Academy | Work in the mathematical sciences |
Israel | Erdős Prize | Israel Mathematical Union | Israeli mathematician in any field of mathematics and computer science |
Israel | Mathematical Neuroscience Prize | Israel Brain Technologies | Significantly advanced the understanding of the neural mechanisms of perception, behavior and thought through the application of mathematical analysis and modeling |
Israel | Wolf Prize in Mathematics | Wolf Foundation | Mathematicians |
Japan | Geometry prize | Mathematical Society of Japan | Significant or long-time research works in the field of geometry, including differential geometry, topology, and algebraic geometry |
Japan | Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences | Inamori Foundation | Global achievement in basic sciences |
South Korea
|Ministry of Science and ICT, National Research Foundation of Korea |Prizes in various categories of science, including one for math.{{cite web |last=저 |first=작권 |date=9 February 2004 |title=노태원 교수등 3명 ‘한국과학상’: 10일 청와대서 시상식 |url=https://www.sciencetimes.co.kr/?news=%EB%85%B8%ED%83%9C%EC%9B%90-%EA%B5%90%EC%88%98%EB%93%B1-3%EB%AA%85-%ED%95%9C%EA%B5%AD%EA%B3%BC%ED%95%99%EC%83%81 |access-date=23 December 2019 |website=The Science Times |publisher= |language=Korean |quote=}} | |||
Pakistan | Abdus Salam Award | International Centre for Theoretical Physics Pakistan chapter | Pakistani nationals in the field of chemistry, mathematics, physics, biology |
Europe
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Europe | European Mathematical Society Prizes{{Cite web |title=European Mathematical Society Prize |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/EuMSPrizes/ |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=Maths History |language=en}} | European Mathematical Society | Excellent contributions in Mathematics by researchers younger than age 35 |
Europe | ERCIM Cor Baayen Award | European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics | Researcher in computer science and applied mathematics |
Europe | EURO Gold Medal | Association of European Operational Research Societies | Outstanding contribution to the field of operations research |
Europe | European Prize in Combinatorics | Eurocomb | Research in combinatorics |
Europe | George Box Medal | European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics | Outstanding work in the development and the application of statistical methods in European business and industry |
Europe | Hausdorff Medal | European Set Theory Society | Impactful work in set theory |
Europe | Louis Bachelier Prize | London Mathematical Society, Natixis Foundation for Quantitative Research and Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles | Exceptional contributions to mathematical modelling in finance, insurance, risk management and/or scientific computing applied to finance and insurance |
Armenia | Emil Artin Junior Prize in Mathematics | Armenian Mathematical Union | Former student of an Armenian university, who is under the age of thirty-five, for outstanding contributions in algebra, geometry, topology, and number theory |
Austria | Prize of the Austrian Mathematical Society | Austrian Mathematical Society | Promising young mathematician for outstanding achievements |
Belgium | Charles Lagrange Prize | Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium | Best mathematical or experimental work contributing to the progress of mathematical knowledge |
Belgium | Eugene Catalan Prize | Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium | Progress in pure mathematics |
Belgium | Francois Deruyts Prize | Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium | Progress in synthetic or analytic superior geometry |
Belgium | Jacques Deruyts Prize | Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium | Progress in mathematical analysis |
France | Ampère Prize | French Academy of Sciences | Outstanding research work in mathematics or physics |
France | E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize | Association for Logic, Language and Information | Outstanding PhD theses in logic, language, and information |
France | Élie Cartan Prize | Institut de France | Mathematician who has introduced new ideas or solved a difficult problem |
France | Fermat Prize | Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse | Research into statements of variational principles, foundations of probability and analytic geometry, or Number theory. |
France | Jacques Herbrand Prize | French Academy of Sciences | Young researchers under age 35 in non-military applied mathematics and physics |
France | Leconte Prize | French Academy of Sciences | Important discoveries in mathematics, physics, and biology |
France | Peccot Lectures | Collège de France | Mathematician under 30 years old |
France | Poincaré Medal | Institut de France etc. | Eminent mathematician. Established in 1914 and eliminated in 1997 in favor of the Grande Médaille |
France | Poncelet Prize | French Academy of Sciences | Work contributing to the progress of pure or (mostly) applied mathematics |
France | Prix Francoeur | Institut de France | Authors of works useful to the progress of pure and applied mathematics (discontinued) |
France | Sophie Germain Prize | French Academy of Sciences | Mathematics prize |
France | Émile Picard Medal | French Academy of Sciences | Outstanding mathematician |
Germany | Ackermann–Teubner Memorial Award | Leipzig University | Work in mathematical analysis (awarded 1912 to 1941) |
Germany | Cantor medal | German Mathematical Society | Mathematicians who are associated with the German language |
Germany | Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize | German Mathematical Society / International Mathematical Union | Outstanding mathematical contributions that have found significant applications outside of mathematics |
Germany | Gauss Lectureship | German Mathematical Society | Current developments in mathematics, aimed at the interested public |
Germany | Heinz Gumin Prize | Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation | Outstanding mathematician in Germany, Austria or Switzerland. |
Germany | Karl Georg Christian von Staudt Prize | Otto and Edith Haupt Foundation | Outstanding, pioneering and published research results in the field of pure mathematics by a mathematician working at a German university or research institution |
Germany | Oberwolfach Prize{{Cite web |title=Oberwolfach Prize |url=https://www.mfo.de/outreach-media/prizes/oberwolfach-prize |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=MFO |language=en}} | Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics | Young European mathematician for excellent achievements in changing fields of mathematics |
Germany | Richard von Mises Prize | Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik | Young scientist (not older than 36) for outstanding scientific achievements in applied mathematics and mechanics |
Hungary | Alfréd Rényi Prize | Hungarian Academy of Sciences | Outstanding performance in mathematics research |
Hungary | Bolyai Prize | Hungarian Academy of Sciences | Mathematicians having published their monograph describing their own highly important new results |
Hungary | Paul Erdős Prize | Hungarian Academy of Sciences | Hungarian mathematicians not older than 40 |
Italy | Caccioppoli Prize | Italian Mathematical Union | Italian mathematician not exceeding the age of 38 who established a wide international reputation |
Italy | International Giovanni Sacchi Landriani Prize | Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere | Original contributions to the field of numerical methods for partial differential equations |
Italy | Riemann Prize | Riemann International School of Mathematics | Outstanding mathematicians between 40 and 65 years of age |
Italy | Stampacchia Medal | Italian Mathematical Union | Outstanding contributions to the field of calculus of variations and related applications |
Italy | Vinti Prize | Italian Mathematical Union | Italian mathematician not exceeding the age of 40, in recognition of his/her contributions to the field of Mathematical Analysis |
Italy | Bartolozzi Prize | Italian Mathematical Union | Female Italian mathematicians below the age of 40 |
Norway | Abel Prize | Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters | Outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics |
Poland | Stefan Banach Prize | Polish Mathematical Society | Achievements to mathematics |
Romania | Simion Stoilow Prize | Romanian Academy | Achievements in mathematics |
Russia | Demidov Prize | Russian Academy of Sciences | Outstanding achievements in natural sciences and humanities |
Russia | Lobachevsky Medal | Kazan Federal University | Outstanding contributions to geometry |
Russia | Lobachevsky Prize | Russian Academy of Sciences | Award in honor of Nikolai Lobachevsky |
Spain | Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize | Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Foundation | Outstanding expository monograph, presenting the latest developments in an active area of research |
Sweden | Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics | Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences | Mathematics |
Sweden | Wallenberg Prize | Swedish Mathematical Society | Research by a Swedish mathematician that has a Ph.D. but no permanent research position |
Switzerland | Heinz Hopf Prize | ETH Zurich | Outstanding scientific work in pure mathematics |
Switzerland | Ostrowski Prize | Ostrowski Foundation | Outstanding achievements in pure mathematics and in the foundations of numerical mathematics |
United Kingdom | Adams Prize | University of Cambridge | Distinguished research in the mathematical sciences |
United Kingdom | Anne Bennett Prize | London Mathematical Society | Work in, influence on or service to mathematics, particularly in relation to advancing the careers of women in mathematics |
United Kingdom | Berwick Prize | London Mathematical Society | Recognition of an outstanding piece of mathematical research |
United Kingdom | Clay Research Award | Clay Mathematics Institute | Major breakthroughs in mathematical research |
United Kingdom | David Crighton Medal | Institute of Mathematics and its Applications / London Mathematical Society | Honorific medal awarded to mathematicians |
United Kingdom | De Morgan Medal | London Mathematical Society | Contributions to mathematics |
United Kingdom | Forder Lectureship | London Mathematical Society | Research mathematician from the United Kingdom who has made an eminent contribution to mathematics and can communicate ideas effectively to a broader audience |
United Kingdom | Fröhlich Prize | London Mathematical Society | Original and extremely innovative work in any branch of mathematics |
United Kingdom | Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize | Royal Society of Edinburgh | Original work done by scientists resident in or connected with Scotland |
United Kingdom | Guy Medal | Royal Statistical Society | Distinction in statistics |
United Kingdom | ICTCM Award | International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics | Individual or group for excellence and innovation in using technology to enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics |
United Kingdom | IMA Gold Medal | Institute of Mathematics and its Applications | Outstanding contributions to mathematics and its applications over a period of years |
United Kingdom | Keith Medal | Royal Society of Edinburgh | Scientific paper published in the society's scientific journals, preference being given to a paper containing a discovery, either in mathematics or earth sciences (No longer awarded) |
United Kingdom | Kolmogorov Medal | University of London | Distinguished researchers with life-long contributions to one of the fields initiated by Andrey Kolmogorov |
United Kingdom | Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis | Institute of Mathematics and its Applications | Young numerical analysts worldwide |
United Kingdom
|Lighthill-Thwaites Prize for Applied Mathematics |Institute of Mathematics and its Applications |Early career applied mathematicians worldwide. | |||
United Kingdom | Mayhew Prize | University of Cambridge | Student showing the greatest distinction in applied mathematics |
United Kingdom | Naylor Prize and Lectureship | London Mathematical Society | Work in applied mathematics and/or the applications of mathematics, and lecturing gifts |
United Kingdom | Neumann Prize | British Society for the History of Mathematics | Book in English (including books in translation) dealing with the history of mathematics and aimed at a broad audience |
United Kingdom | Pólya Prize (LMS) | London Mathematical Society | Outstanding creativity in, imaginative exposition of, or distinguished contribution to, mathematics within the United Kingdom |
United Kingdom | Rollo Davidson Prize | Rollo Davidson Trust | Early-career probabilists |
United Kingdom | Senior Whitehead Prize | London Mathematical Society | Work in, influence on or service to mathematics, or recognition of lecturing gifts in the field of mathematics |
United Kingdom | Shephard Prize | London Mathematical Society | Making a contribution to mathematics with a strong intuitive component |
United Kingdom | Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize | Edinburgh Mathematical Society | Outstanding young mathematician having a specified connection with Scotland |
United Kingdom | Smith's Prize | University of Cambridge | Research students in mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge |
United Kingdom | Sylvester Medal | Royal Society | Early- to mid-career stage scientist rather than an established mathematician |
United Kingdom | Thomas Bond Sprague Prize | University of Cambridge | Greatest distinction in actuarial science, finance, insurance, mathematics of operational research, probability, risk and statistics in the Master of Mathematics/Master of Advanced Studies examinations |
United Kingdom | Tyson Medal | University of Cambridge | Best performance in subjects relating to astronomy |
United Kingdom | Whitehead Prize | London Mathematical Society | Mathematicians working in the United Kingdom who are at an early stage of their career |
United Kingdom | Wrangler (University of Cambridge) | University of Cambridge | Student who gains first-class honours in the third year of the University's undergraduate degree in mathematics |
United Kingdom | Copley Medal | Royal Society | Outstanding achievements in research in any branch of science. |
Oceania
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Australia | Australian Mathematical Society Medal | Australian Mathematical Society | Distinguished mathematical sciences research by members of the Australian Mathematical Society |
Australia | George Szekeres Medal | Australian Mathematical Society | Outstanding research contributions over a fifteen-year period |
Australia | Hannan Medal | Australian Academy of Science | Achievements by Australians in the fields of pure mathematics, applied and computational mathematics, and statistical science |
Australia | Moran Medal | Australian Academy of Science | Outstanding research by Australian scientists under 40 years of age in applied probability, biometrics, mathematical genetics, psychometrics, and statistics |
Australia | Phillip Law Postdoctoral Award for the Physical Sciences | Royal Society of Victoria | Early career research |
Australia | Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal | Australian Academy of Science | Mathematician or physicist |
New Zealand | Hector Medal | Royal Society Te Apārangi | Researcher who has undertaken work of great scientific or technological merit and has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the particular branch of science |
New Zealand
|New Zealand Mathematical Society |To complete a lecture tour of UK universities, awarded alternately with the Forder Lectureship.{{Cite web |title=LMS-NZMS Forder and Aitken Lectureships {{!}} London Mathematical Society |url=https://www.lms.ac.uk/events/lectures/forder-and-aitken-lectureship |access-date=2023-12-13 |website=www.lms.ac.uk}} |
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