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== Laureates == {{Clear}} {|style="margin:auto;" class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |- !scope=col|Year !scope=col|Laureate(s) !scope=col class=unsortable|Image !scope=col|Institution(s) !scope=col class=unsortable|Citation |- !scope=row |2003 |{{sortname|Jean-Pierre|Serre}} |[[File:Jean-Pierre Serre 2003.jpg|100px|alt=Jean-Pierre Serre]] |[[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]]."<ref>{{cite web |title=2003: Jean-Pierre Serre |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2003 |access-date=21 July 2022 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters}}</ref> |- !scope=row rowspan=2 |2004 |{{sortname|Michael|Atiyah}} |[[File:Michael Francis Atiyah (cropped).jpg|100px|alt=Michael Atiya]] |[[University of Edinburgh]]<br>[[University of Cambridge]] |rowspan=2 |"For their discovery and proof of the [[Atiyah–Singer index theorem|index theorem]], bringing together [[topology]], [[geometry]] and [[Mathematical analysis|analysis]], and their outstanding role in building new bridges between mathematics and [[theoretical physics]]."<ref>{{cite web |title=2004: Sir Michael Francis Atiyah and Isadore M. Singer |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2004 |access-date=21 July 2022 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters}}</ref> |- |{{sortname|Isadore|Singer}} |[[File:Isadore Singer 1977 (re-scanned 2; border-less) (cleaned) (cropped).jpg|100px|alt=Isadore Singer]] |[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]<br/>[[University of California, Berkeley]] |- !scope=row |2005 |{{sortname|Peter|Lax}} |[[File:Peter Lax in Tokyo.jpg|100px|alt=Peter Lax]] |[[Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences|Courant Institute]] (NYU) |"For his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of [[partial differential equation]]s and to the computation of their solutions."<ref>{{cite web |title=2005: Peter D. Lax |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2005 |access-date=21 July 2022 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters}}</ref> |- !scope=row |2006 |{{sortname|Lennart|Carleson}} |[[File:Carleson cropped.jpg|100px|alt=Lennart Carleson]] |[[Royal Institute of Technology]] |"For his profound and seminal contributions to [[harmonic analysis]] and the theory of smooth [[dynamical system]]s."<ref>{{cite web |title=2006: Lennart Carleson |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2006 |access-date=21 July 2022 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters}}</ref> |- !scope=row |2007 |{{sortname|S. R. Srinivasa|Varadhan}} |[[File:Srinivasa Varadhan Heidelberg.JPG|100px|alt=S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan]] |[[Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences|Courant Institute]] (NYU) |"For his fundamental contributions to [[probability theory]] and in particular for creating a unified [[Large deviations theory|theory of large deviation]]."<ref>{{cite web |title=2007: Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2007 |access-date=21 July 2022 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters}}</ref> |- !scope=row rowspan=2 |2008 |{{sortname|John G.|Thompson}} |[[File:John Griggs Thompson (cropped).jpg|100px|alt=John Griggs Thompson]] |[[University of Florida]] |rowspan=2 |"For their profound achievements in [[algebra]] and in particular for shaping modern [[group theory]]."<ref>{{cite web |title=2008: John Griggs Thompson and Jacques Tits |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2008 |access-date=21 July 2022 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters}}</ref> |- |{{sortname|Jacques|Tits}} |[[File:Jacques Tits (2008) (cropped).jpg|100px|alt=Jacques Tits]] |[[Collège de France]] |- !scope=row |2009 |{{sortname|Mikhail|Gromov|Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov}} |[[File:Mikhael Gromov (cropped).jpg|100px|alt=Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov]] |[[Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abelprize.no/binfil/download.php?tid=53787|title=The Abel Committee's Citation 2009|publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters|access-date=9 August 2016|archive-date=22 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822084754/http://www.abelprize.no/binfil/download.php?tid=53787|url-status=live}}</ref><br>[[Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences|Courant Institute]] (NYU)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Foderaro |first=Lisa W. |date=31 May 2009 |title=In N.Y.U.'s Tally of Abel Prizes for Mathematics, Gromov Makes Three |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/nyregion/01nyu.html |access-date=17 October 2012 |archive-date=2 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402161443/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/nyregion/01nyu.html |url-status=live}}</ref> |"For his revolutionary contributions to geometry."<ref>{{cite web |title=2009: Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2009 |access-date=21 July 2022 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters}}</ref> |- !scope=row |2010 |{{sortname|John|Tate|John Tate (mathematician)}} |[[File:John Tate (cropped).jpg|100px|alt=John Tate]] |[[University of Texas at Austin]] |"For his vast and lasting impact on the [[number theory|theory of numbers]]."<ref>{{cite web |title=2010: John Torrence Tate |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2010 |access-date=21 July 2022 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters}}</ref> |- !scope=row |2011 |{{sortname|John|Milnor}} |[[File:John Milnor, 1993 Oct (portioned).jpg|100px|alt=John Milnor]] |[[Stony Brook University]] |"For pioneering discoveries in [[topology]], [[geometry]], and [[algebra]]."<ref>{{cite web |title=2011: John Milnor |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2011 |access-date=21 July 2022 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters}}</ref> |- !scope=row |2012 |{{sortname|Endre|Szemerédi}} |[[File:Szemeredi1.JPG|100px|alt=Endre Szemeredi]] |[[Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics|Alfréd Rényi Institute]]<br>[[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]]."<ref>{{cite web |title=2012: Endre Szemerédi |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2012 |access-date=21 July 2022 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters}}</ref> |- !scope=row |2013 |{{sortname|Pierre|Deligne}} |[[File:Pierre Deligne (2005) (cropped).jpg|100px|alt=Pierre Deligne]] |[[Institute for Advanced Study]] |"For seminal contributions to [[algebraic geometry]] and for their transformative impact on [[number theory]], [[representation theory]], and related fields."<ref>{{cite web |title=The Abel Prize Laureate 2013 |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2013 |access-date=21 July 2022 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters}}</ref> |- !scope=row |2014 |{{sortname|Yakov|Sinai}} |[[File:Yakov G Sinai photo.jpg|100px|alt=Yakov G Sinai]] |[[Princeton University]]<br>[[Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abelprize.no/binfil/download.php?tid=61129|title=The Abel Committee's Citation 2014|publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters|access-date=9 August 2016|archive-date=22 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822090637/http://www.abelprize.no/binfil/download.php?tid=61129|url-status=dead}}</ref> |"For his fundamental contributions to [[dynamical system]]s, [[ergodic theory]], and [[mathematical physics]]."<ref>{{cite web |title=2014: Yakov G. Sinai |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2014 |access-date=21 July 2022 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters}}</ref> |- !scope=row rowspan=2 |2015 |{{sortname|John F.|Nash Jr.|John Forbes Nash Jr.}} |[[File:John Forbes Nash, Jr. by Peter Badge cropped.jpg|100px|alt=John Forbes Nash Jr.]] |[[Princeton University]] |rowspan=2 |"For striking and seminal contributions to the theory of nonlinear [[partial differential equation]]s and its applications to [[geometric analysis]]."<ref>{{cite web |title=2015: John F. Nash and Louis Nirenberg |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2015 |access-date=21 July 2022 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters}}</ref> |- |{{sortname|Louis|Nirenberg}} |[[File:Louis Nirenberg (cropped).jpeg|100px|alt=Louis Nirenberg]] |[[Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences|Courant Institute]] (NYU) |- !scope=row |2016 |{{sortname|Andrew|Wiles|Andrew Wiles}} |[[File:Andrew wiles1-3.jpg|100px|alt=Andrew Wiles]] |[[University of Oxford]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abelprize.no/binfil/download.php?tid=67059|title=The Abel Committee's Citation 2016|publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters|access-date=9 August 2016|archive-date=2 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160802002116/http://www.abelprize.no/binfil/download.php?tid=67059|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.abelprize.no/binfil/download.php?tid=67066|title=Sir Andrew J. Wiles receives the Abel Prize|publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters|access-date=9 August 2016|archive-date=22 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822084635/http://www.abelprize.no/binfil/download.php?tid=67066|url-status=dead}}</ref> |"For [[Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|his stunning proof]] of [[Fermat's Last Theorem]] by way of the modularity conjecture for semistable elliptic curves, opening a new era in number theory."<ref>{{cite web |title=2016: Sir Andrew J. Wiles |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2016 |access-date=21 July 2022 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters}}</ref> |- !scope=row |2017 |{{sortname|Yves|Meyer|Yves Meyer}} |[[File:Yves Meyer.jpg|100px|alt=Yves Meyer]] |[[École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay]] |"For his pivotal role in the development of the mathematical theory of [[wavelet]]s."<ref>{{cite web |title=2017: Yves Meyer |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2017 |access-date=21 July 2022 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters}}</ref> |- !scope=row |2018 |{{sortname|Robert|Langlands}} |[[File:Langlands2 (cropped).jpg|100px|alt=Robert Langlands]] |[[Institute for Advanced Study]] |"For [[Langlands program|his visionary program]] connecting representation theory to number theory."<ref>{{cite web |title=2018: Robert P. Langlands |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2018 |access-date=21 July 2022 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters}}</ref> |- !scope=row |2019 |{{sortname|Karen|Uhlenbeck}} |[[File:Karen Uhlenbeck (cropped).jpg|100px|alt=Karen Uhlenbeck]] |[[University of Texas at Austin]] |"For her pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, [[gauge theory]] and [[integrable systems]], and for the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics."<ref>{{cite web |title=2019: Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2019 |access-date=21 July 2022 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters}}</ref> |- !scope=row rowspan=2 |2020 |{{sortname|Hillel|Furstenberg}} |[[File:Professor Hillel Furstenberg Cropped.jpg|100px|alt=Hillel (Harry) Furstenberg]] |[[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] |rowspan=2 |"For pioneering the use of methods from [[probability]] and [[Dynamical systems theory|dynamics]] in [[group theory]], [[number theory]] and [[combinatorics]]."<ref>{{cite web |title=2020: Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2020 |access-date=21 July 2022 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters}}</ref> |- |{{sortname|Grigory|Margulis}} |[[File:Grigory Margulis (2006) (cropped).jpg|100px|alt=Grigory Margulis]] |[[Yale University]] |- !scope=row rowspan=2 |2021 |{{sortname|László|Lovász}} |[[File:László Lovász (2017) (cropped).jpg|100px|alt=Laszlo Lovasz]] |[[Eötvös Loránd University]] |rowspan=2 |"For their foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, and their leading role in shaping them into central fields of modern mathematics".<ref>{{Cite web |title=2021: László Lovász and Avi Wigderson |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2021 |access-date=21 July 2022 |website=abelprize.no}}</ref> |- |{{sortname|Avi|Wigderson}} |[[File:Avi Wigderson (London 2012) Cropped.jpg|100px|alt=Avi Wigerson]] |[[Institute for Advanced Study]] |- !scope=row |2022 |{{sortname|Dennis|Sullivan}} |[[File:Dennis Sullivan at MSRI (cropped).jpg|100px|alt=Dennis Sullivan]] |[[Stony Brook University]]<br>[[CUNY Graduate Center]] |"For his groundbreaking contributions to topology in its broadest sense, and in particular its algebraic, geometric and dynamical aspects."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://abelprize.no/citation/citation-dennis-parnell-sullivan |title=Prize winner 2022 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters|access-date=25 March 2022}}</ref> |- !scope=row |2023 |{{sortname|Luis|Caffarelli}} |[[File:Luis Caffarelli (2013) (cropped).jpg|100px|alt=Luis Caffarelli]] |[[University of Texas at Austin]] |"For his seminal contributions to regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations including free-boundary problems and the [[Monge–Ampère equation]]."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://abelprize.no/citation/citation-luis-caffarelli |title=Prize winner 2023 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters|access-date=22 March 2023}}</ref> |- !scope=row |2024 |{{sortname|Michel|Talagrand}} |[[File:Michel Talagrand (cropped).jpg|100px|alt=Michel Talagrand]] |[[French National Centre for Scientific Research|Centre national de la recherche scientifique]] |"For his groundbreaking contributions to probability theory and functional analysis, with outstanding applications in mathematical physics and statistics."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2024 |title=Prize winner 2024 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters|access-date=20 March 2024}}</ref> |- !scope=row |2025 |{{sortname|Masaki|Kashiwara}} |[[File:Masaki Kashiwara (2018) (2) (cropped).jpg|100px|alt=Masaki Kashiwara]] |[[Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences]] |"For his fundamental contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory, in particular the development of the theory of [[D-module]]s and the discovery of [[crystal base]]s."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2025 |title=Prize winner 2025 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters|access-date=25 March 2025}}</ref> |}
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