Abel Prize - Laureates

Laureates

Year	Laureate(s)	Citizenship	Institution	Citation
2003	Serre, Jean-PierreJean-Pierre Serre	French	Collège de France	"for playing a key role in shaping the modern form of many parts of mathematics, including topology, algebraic geometry and number theory"
2004	Atiyah, MichaelMichael Atiyah Singer, IsadoreIsadore Singer	British American	University of Edinburgh MIT	"for their discovery and proof of the index theorem, bringing together topology, geometry and analysis, and their outstanding role in building new bridges between mathematics and theoretical physics"
2005	Lax, PeterPeter Lax	American	Courant Institute, NYU	"for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions"
2006	Carleson, LennartLennart Carleson	Swedish	Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan	"for his profound and seminal contributions to harmonic analysis and the theory of smooth dynamical systems"
2007	Varadhan, S. R. SrinivasaS. R. Srinivasa Varadhan	Indian American	Courant Institute, NYU	"for his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviation"
2008	Thompson, John G.John G. Thompson Tits, JacquesJacques Tits	American Belgian/French	University of Florida Collège de France	"for their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory"
2009	Gromov, MikhailMikhail Gromov	Russian French	IHÉS Courant Institute, NYU	"for his revolutionary contributions to geometry"
2010	Tate, John T.John T. Tate	American	UT Austin	"for his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers"
2011	Milnor, JohnJohn Milnor	American	Stony Brook University	"for pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry, and algebra"
2012	Szemerédi, EndreEndre Szemerédi	Hungarian	Alfréd Rényi Institute and Rutgers University	"for his fundamental contributions to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, and in recognition of the profound and lasting impact of these contributions on additive number theory and ergodic theory"