The Abel Prize is an international prize presented by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. Named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829), the Abel Prize and the Fields Medal have often been described as the "Mathematician’s Nobel Prizes".

We would like to congratulate the 2024 Abel Prize recipient Michel Talagrand, who has been recognized by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters “for his groundbreaking contributions to probability theory and functional analysis, with outstanding applications in mathematical physics and statistics.” Probability theory first originated from problems in the context of gambling and risk ...

The Fields Medal, established in 1936 and named after the Canadian mathematician J. C. Fields, is one of the most prestigious awards in the field of mathematics and often described as the "Nobel Prize of Mathematics".

Abel Prize - 2021 Together with László Lovász for their foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, and their leading role in shaping them into central fields of modern mathematics.

Carlos Kenig of the IMU interviews the 2018 Fields Medalists Caucher Birkar, Alessio Figalli and Peter Scholze, as well as Constantinos Daskalakis who was awarded the 2018 Nevanlinna Prize. On behalf of the DNVA, Alex Bellos talks with Gregory Margulis and Hillel Furstenberg who received the 2020 Abel Prize.

Congratulations to 2025 Abel Prize Recipient, Masaki Kashiwara! The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA) has annouced that the 2025 Abel Prize is being awarded to the mathematician Masaki Kashiwara, who is being recognized "for his fundamental contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory, in particular the development of the theory of D-modules and the discovery of ...

Abel Prize - 2016 For 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.

Abel Prize - 2021 Together with Avi Wigderson for their foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, and their leading role in shaping them into central fields of modern mathematics.

The Abel Prize was established in 2002 on the 200th anniversary of Niels Henrik Abel’s birth, and it has been awarded to 19 laureates. Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829) was a Norwegian mathematician.

Abel Prize - 2024 For his groundbreaking contributions to probability theory and functional analysis, with outstanding applications in mathematical physics and statistics.