The Élie Cartan Prize (Prix Élie Cartan) is awarded every three years by the
Institut de France
The ; ) is a French learned society, grouping five , including the . It was established in 1795 at the direction of the National Convention. Located on the Quai de Conti in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the institute manages approximately ...
,
Académie des Sciences
The French Academy of Sciences (, ) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French Scientific method, scientific research. It was at the forefron ...
, Fondation Élie Cartan, to recognize a mathematician who has introduced new ideas or solved a difficult problem. The prize, named for mathematician
Élie Cartan
Élie Joseph Cartan (; 9 April 1869 – 6 May 1951) was an influential French mathematician who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups, differential systems (coordinate-free geometric formulation of PDEs), and differential geometry. He ...
, was established in 1980
and carries a monetary award.
Recipients
The recipients of the Élie Cartan Prize are:
* 1981:
Dennis P. Sullivan
* 1984:
Mikhael Gromov
* 1987:
Johannes Sjöstrand
Johannes Sjöstrand (born 1947) is a Swedish mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations and functional analysis.
Sjöstrand received his doctorate in 1972 from Lund University under Lars Hörmander. Sjöstrand taught at the Un ...
* 1990:
Jean Bourgain
Jean Louis, baron Bourgain (; – ) was a Belgian mathematician. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1994 in recognition of his work on several core topics of mathematical analysis such as the geometry of Banach spaces, harmonic analysis, ergodi ...
* 1993:
Clifford H. Taubes
* 1996:
Don Zagier
Don Bernard Zagier (born 29 June 1951) is an American-German mathematician whose main area of work is number theory. He is currently one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany. He was a professor at the ''Co ...
* 1999:
Laurent Clozel
* 2002:
Jean-Benoît Bost
Jean-Benoît Bost (born 27 July 1961, in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French mathematician.
Early life and education
In 1977, Bost graduated from the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and finished first in the Concours général, a national competition. Bost stu ...
* 2006:
Emmanuel Ullmo
* 2009:
Raphaël Rouquier
Raphaël Alexis Marcel Rouquier (born 9 December 1969) is a French mathematician and
a professor of mathematics at UCLA.
Education
Rouquier was born in Étampes, France.
Rouquier studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1988 to 1989 ...
* 2012:
Francis Brown
* 2015:
Anna Erschler
Anna Gennadievna Erschler, née Dyubina, (Анна Геннадьевна Эршлер; born 14 February 1977), is a Russian mathematician working in France. She specializes in geometric group theory and probability theory, in particular, random wa ...
* 2018:
Vincent Pilloni
Vincent Pilloni is a French mathematician, specializing in arithmetic geometry and the Langlands program.
Career
Pilloni studied at the École Normale Supérieure and received his doctorate in 2009 from Université Sorbonne Paris Nord with thesis ...
* 2022: Romain Dujardin
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
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