The Francois Deruyts Prize, or Prix François Deruyts, is awarded every four years to recognize progress in synthetic or analytic superior geometry. It was established in 1902 by the
Académie Royale de Belgique
The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium (RASAB) is a non-governmental association that promotes and organises science and the arts in Belgium by coordinating the national and international activities of its constituent academies su ...
, Classe des Sciences, in memory of the Belgian mathematician , and carries a monetary award. Originally recipients had to be Belgian, but currently
EU nationals are eligible.
Recipients
The recipients of the Francois Deruyts Prize are:
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* 1906: Modeste Stuyvaert
* 1910: Joseph Fairon
* 1914:
Lucien Godeaux
Lucien Godeaux (1887–1975) was a prolific Belgian mathematician. His total of more than 1000 papers and books, 669 of which are found in Mathematical Reviews, made him one of the most published mathematicians. He was the sole author of all but ...
* 1918: No award
* 1926: No award
* 1930: Roland Deaux
* 1934: Augustin Delgleize
* 1938: Pol Burniat
* 1938: Octave Rozet
* 1942: Pierre Defrise
* 1946: François Jongmans
* 1946: Louis Nollet
* 1950: Léon-Élie Derwidué
* 1954:
Guy Hirsch
Guy Hirsch (20 September 1915 – 4 August 1993) was a Belgian mathematician and philosopher of mathematics, who worked on algebraic topology and epistemology of mathematics.
He became a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Scienc ...
* 1958: Fernand Backes
* 1962:
Paul Dedecker
* 1962:
Jacques Tits
Jacques Tits () (12 August 1930 – 5 December 2021) was a Belgian-born French mathematician who worked on group theory and incidence geometry. He introduced Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric.
Early life ...
* 1966: No award
* 1970: J.A. Thas
* 1974:
Pierre Deligne
Pierre René, Viscount Deligne (; born 3 October 1944) is a Belgian mathematician. He is best known for work on the Weil conjectures, leading to a complete proof in 1973. He is the winner of the 2013 Abel Prize, 2008 Wolf Prize, 1988 Crafoor ...
* 1978: Michel Cahen
* 1982:
Francis Buekenhout
Francis Buekenhout (born 23 April 1937 in Ixelles near Brussels) is a Belgian mathematician who introduced Buekenhout geometries and the concept of quadratic sets.
Career
Buekenhout studied at the University of Brussels under Jacques Tits and ...
* 1986: Pierre Lecomte
* 1990: Luc Haine
* 1994: Luc Lemaire
* 1998:
Simone Gutt
Simone Gutt (born 1956) is a Belgian mathematician specializing in differential geometry. She is a professor of mathematics at the Université libre de Bruxelles.
Education and career
Gutt was born on 13 July 1956 in Uccle, near Brussels. She com ...
* 2002: Yves Félix
* 2006: Frédéric Bourgeois
* 2010: Lorenz Johannes Schwachhöfer
* 2014: Pascal Lambrechts
* 2018:
Dimitri Leemans
* 2022:
Eva Miranda
See also
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List of mathematics awards
This list of mathematics awards contains articles about notable awards for mathematics. The list is organized by the region and country of the organization that sponsors the award, but awards may be open to mathematicians from around the world. Som ...
References
Mathematics awards
1902 establishments in Belgium
Awards established in 1902