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Revision as of 08:09, 21 August 2002 by Serge Stinckwich (talk | contribs) (2002 winners)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)A prize awarded to up to four mathematicians (under forty) at each International Congress of Mathematicians since 1936 and regularly since 1948 at the initiative of the Canadian mathematican Fields. The purpose is to give recognition and support to young mathematical researchers having already made important contributions.
- 2002 (Beijing, China): Laurent Lafforgue, Vladimir Voevodsky
- 1998 (Berlin, Germany): Richard Borcherds, William T. Gowers, Maxim Kontsevich, Curtis McMullen
- 1994 (Zurich, Switzerland): Efim Zelmanov, Jacques-Louis Lions, Jean Bourgain, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
- 1990 (Kyoto, Japan): Vladimir Drinfeld, Vaughan F.R. Jones, Shigefumi Mori, Edward Witten
- 1986 (Berkeley, CA): Simon Donaldson, Gerd Faltings, Michael Freedman
- 1982 (Warsaw, Poland): Alain Connes, William Thurston, Shing-Tung Yau
- 1978 (Vancouver, B.C., Canada): Pierre Deligne, Charles Fefferman, Grigory Margulis, Daniel Quillen
- 1974 (Helsinki, Finland): Enrico Bombieri, David Mumford
- 1970 (Nice, France): Alan Baker, Heisuke Hironaka, Sergei Novikov, John G Thompson
- 1966 (Moskva, Russia): Michael Francis Atiyah, Paul J. Cohen, Alexander Grothendieck, Stephen Smale
- 1962 ((Stockholm, Sweden): Lars Hormander, John Milnor
- 1958 : Klaus Roth, Rene Thom
- 1954 : Kunihiko Kodaira, Jean-Pierre Serre
- 1950 : Laurent Schwartz, Atle Selberg
- 1936 : Lars Ahlfors, Jesse Douglas
See also:
- International Mathematical Union
- IMU Fields medal page (external link)
- Nevanlinna Prize, another prize for outstanding mathematicians
- Mathematician, for other mathematicians