Pólya Prize (SIAM)
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The Pólya Prize is a prize in mathematics
, awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
. First given in 1969, the prize is named after Hungarian mathematician George Pólya
. It is now awarded in evenly numbered years.
The George Pólya Prize is given every two years, alternately in two categories: (1) for a notable application of combinatorial theory; (2) for a notable contribution in another area of interest to George Pólya such as approximation theory, complex analysis, number theory, orthogonal polynomials, probability theory, or mathematical discovery and learning.
The prize is broadly intended to recognize specific recent work. Prize committees may occasionally consider an award for cumulative work, but such awards should be rare.
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics was founded by a small group of mathematicians from academia and industry who met in Philadelphia in 1951 to start an organization whose members would meet periodically to exchange ideas about the uses of mathematics in industry. This meeting led...
. First given in 1969, the prize is named after Hungarian mathematician George Pólya
George Pólya
George Pólya was a Hungarian mathematician. He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University. He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory...
. It is now awarded in evenly numbered years.
The George Pólya Prize is given every two years, alternately in two categories: (1) for a notable application of combinatorial theory; (2) for a notable contribution in another area of interest to George Pólya such as approximation theory, complex analysis, number theory, orthogonal polynomials, probability theory, or mathematical discovery and learning.
The prize is broadly intended to recognize specific recent work. Prize committees may occasionally consider an award for cumulative work, but such awards should be rare.
Winners
- 1971 Ronald L. GrahamRonald GrahamRonald Lewis Graham is a mathematician credited by the American Mathematical Society as being "one of the principal architects of the rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics in recent years"...
, Klaus Leeb, B. L. Rothschild, A. W. Hales, and R. I. Jewett - 1975 Richard P. StanleyRichard P. StanleyRichard Peter Stanley is the Norman Levinson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1971 under the supervision of Gian-Carlo Rota...
, Endre SzemerédiEndre SzemerédiEndre Szemerédi is a Hungarian mathematician, working in the field of combinatorics and theoretical computer science. He is the State of New Jersey Professor of computer science at Rutgers University since 1986...
, and Richard M. Wilson - 1979 László LovászLászló LovászLászló Lovász is a Hungarian mathematician, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the Wolf Prize and the Knuth Prize in 1999, and the Kyoto Prize in 2010....
- 1983 Anders BjörnerAnders BjörnerAnders Björner is a Swedish professor of mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden...
and Paul Seymour - 1987 Andrew YaoAndrew YaoAndrew Chi-Chih Yao is a prominent computer scientist and computational theorist. Yao used the minimax theorem to prove what is now known as Yao's Principle.Yao was born in Shanghai, China...
- 1992 Gil KalaiGil KalaiGil Kalai is the Henry and Manya Noskwith Professor of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and adjunct professor of mathematics and of computer science at Yale University, and the editor of the Israel Journal of Mathematics.-Biography:...
and Saharon ShelahSaharon ShelahSaharon Shelah is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Rutgers University in New Jersey.-Biography:... - 1994 Gregory Chudnovsky and Harry KestenHarry KestenHarry Kesten is an American mathematician best known for his work in probability, most notably on random walks and percolation theory.- Biography :...
- 1996 Jeff KahnJeff KahnJeffry Ned Kahn is a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University notable for his work in combinatorics. Kahn received his Ph.D from the Ohio State University in 1979 after completing his dissertation under his advisor Dwijendra Kumar Ray-Chaudhuri....
and David Reimer - 1998 Percy DeiftPercy DeiftPercy A. Deift is a mathematician known for his work on spectral theory, integrable systems, random matrix theory and Riemann–Hilbert problems....
, Xin Zhou, and Peter SarnakPeter SarnakPeter Clive Sarnak is a South African-born mathematician. He has been Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University since 2002, succeeding Andrew Wiles, and is an editor of the Annals of Mathematics... - 2000 Noga AlonNoga AlonNoga Alon is an Israeli mathematician noted for his contributions to combinatorics and theoretical computer science, having authored hundreds of papers.- Academic background :...
- 2002 Craig TracyCraig TracyCraig Arnold Tracy is an American mathematician, known for his contributions to mathematical physics and probability theory.Born in United Kingdom, he moved as infant to Missouri where he grew up and...
and Harold WidomHarold WidomHarold Widom is an American mathematician well known for his contributions to operator theory and random matrices. He was appointed to the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1968 and became professor emeritus in 1994. ... - 2004 Neil RobertsonNeil Robertson (mathematician)G. Neil Robertson is a mathematician working mainly in topological graph theory, currently a distinguished professor at the Ohio State University. He earned his Ph.D. in 1969 at the University of Waterloo under his doctoral advisor William Tutte. According to the criteria of the Erdős Number...
and Paul Seymour - 2006 Gregory F. LawlerGreg LawlerGregory Francis Lawler is an American mathematician working in probability theory and best known for his work since 2000 on the Schramm-Loewner evolution.He received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1979 under the supervision of Edward Nelson...
, Oded SchrammOded SchrammOded Schramm was an Israeli-American mathematician known for the invention of the Schramm–Loewner evolution and for working at the intersection of conformal field theory and probability theory.-Biography:...
, Wendelin WernerWendelin WernerWendelin Werner is a German-born French mathematician working in the area of self-avoiding random walks, Schramm-Loewner evolution, and related theories in probability theory and mathematical physics. In 2006, at the 25th International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain he received the... - 2008 Van H. Vu
- 2010 Emmanuel CandèsEmmanuel CandèsEmmanuel Jean Candès is a professor of mathematics and statistics at Stanford University.-Academic biography:Candès earned a B.Sc. from the École Polytechnique in 1993. He did his graduate studies at Stanford, where he earned a Ph.D. in statistics in 1998 under the supervision of David Donoho and...
and Terence TaoTerence TaoTerence Chi-Shen Tao FRS is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory...