Nevanlinna Prize
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The Rolf Nevanlinna Prize is awarded once every 4 years at the International Congress of Mathematicians
, for outstanding contributions in Mathematical Aspects of Information Sciences including:
The prize was established in 1981 by the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union
IMU and named to honour the Finnish mathematician Rolf Nevanlinna
who had died a year earlier. The award consists of a gold medal and cash prize. Like the Fields Medal
the prize is targeted at younger mathematicians, and only those younger than 40 on January 1 of the award year are eligible.
The medal features a profile of Nevanlinna, the text "Rolf Nevanlinna Prize", and very small characters "RH 83" on its obverse. RH refers to Raimo Heino, the medal's designer, and 83 to the year of first minting. On the reverse, two figures related to the University of Helsinki
, the prize sponsor, are engraved. The rim bears the name of the prizewinner.
International Congress of Mathematicians
The International Congress of Mathematicians is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union ....
, for outstanding contributions in Mathematical Aspects of Information Sciences including:
- All mathematical aspects of computer science, including complexity theory, logic of programming languages, analysis of algorithmsAnalysis of algorithmsTo analyze an algorithm is to determine the amount of resources necessary to execute it. Most algorithms are designed to work with inputs of arbitrary length...
, cryptography, computer vision, pattern recognition, information processing and modelling of intelligence. - Scientific computing and numerical analysis. Computational aspects of optimization and control theory. Computer algebra.
The prize was established in 1981 by the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union
International Mathematical Union
The International Mathematical Union is an international non-governmental organisation devoted to international cooperation in the field of mathematics across the world. It is a member of the International Council for Science and supports the International Congress of Mathematicians...
IMU and named to honour the Finnish mathematician Rolf Nevanlinna
Rolf Nevanlinna
Rolf Herman Nevanlinna was one of the most famous Finnish mathematicians. He was particularly appreciated for his work in complex analysis.- The Nevanlinna family :...
who had died a year earlier. The award consists of a gold medal and cash prize. Like the Fields Medal
Fields Medal
The Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union , a meeting that takes place every four...
the prize is targeted at younger mathematicians, and only those younger than 40 on January 1 of the award year are eligible.
The medal features a profile of Nevanlinna, the text "Rolf Nevanlinna Prize", and very small characters "RH 83" on its obverse. RH refers to Raimo Heino, the medal's designer, and 83 to the year of first minting. On the reverse, two figures related to the University of Helsinki
University of Helsinki
The University of Helsinki is a university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but was founded in the city of Turku in 1640 as The Royal Academy of Turku, at that time part of the Swedish Empire. It is the oldest and largest university in Finland with the widest range of disciplines available...
, the prize sponsor, are engraved. The rim bears the name of the prizewinner.
Laureates
| Year | Laureate | Nationality | |
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| 1982 | Robert Tarjan Robert Tarjan Robert Endre Tarjan is a renowned American computer scientist. He is the discoverer of several important graph algorithms, including Tarjan's off-line least common ancestors algorithm, and co-inventor of both splay trees and Fibonacci heaps. Tarjan is currently the James S... |
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| 1986 | Leslie Valiant Leslie Valiant Leslie Gabriel Valiant is a British computer scientist and computational theorist.He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, Imperial College London, and University of Warwick where he received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1974. He started teaching at Harvard University in 1982 and is... |
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| 1990 | Alexander Razborov Alexander Razborov Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Razborov , sometimes known as Sasha Razborov, is a Soviet and Russian mathematician and computational theorist who won the Nevanlinna Prize in 1990 for introducing the "approximation method" in proving Boolean circuit lower bounds of some essential algorithmic problems, and... |
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| 1994 | Avi Wigderson Avi Wigderson Avi Wigderson is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, a professor of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His research interests include complexity theory, parallel algorithms, graph theory, cryptography, distributed computing, and neural... |
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| 1998 | Peter Shor Peter Shor Peter Williston Shor is an American professor of applied mathematics at MIT, most famous for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the best currently-known algorithm running on a classical... |
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| 2002 | Madhu Sudan Madhu Sudan Madhu Sudan is an Indian computer scientist, professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.-Career:... |
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| 2006 | Jon Kleinberg Jon Kleinberg -External links:**** Stephen Ibaraki*Yury Lifshits,... |
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| 2010 | Daniel Spielman Daniel Spielman Daniel Alan Spielman is professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Yale University .... |
See also
- Turing AwardTuring AwardThe Turing Award, in full The ACM A.M. Turing Award, is an annual award given by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the...
- Gödel PrizeGödel PrizeThe Gödel Prize is a prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science, named after Kurt Gödel and awarded jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory .The...
- Abel PrizeAbel PrizeThe Abel Prize is an international prize presented annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. The prize is named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel . It has often been described as the "mathematician's Nobel prize" and is among the most prestigious...
- Fields MedalFields MedalThe Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union , a meeting that takes place every four...
- Schock PrizeSchock prizeThe Rolf Schock Prizes were established and endowed by bequest of philosopher and artist Rolf Schock . The prizes were first awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1993 and have been awarded every two years since...
- Wolf Prize
- List of prizes
External links
- Rolf Nevanlinna Prizes - Official site