The Cantor Medal of the

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is named in honor of

Georg Cantor Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor ( ; ; – 6 January 1918) was a mathematician who played a pivotal role in the creation of set theory, which has become a foundations of mathematics, fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor establi ...

, the first president of the society. It is awarded at most every second year during the yearly meetings of the society. The prize winners are

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who are associated with the German language.

Prize winners

* 1990 Karl Stein. * 1992

Jürgen Moser Jürgen Kurt Moser (July 4, 1928 – December 17, 1999) was a German-American mathematician, honored for work spanning over four decades, including Hamiltonian dynamical systems and partial differential equations. Life Moser's mother Ilse Strehl ...

The Georg Cantor Medal of the ''Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung''
, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, retrieved 5 June 2014. * 1994

Erhard Heinz Erhard Heinz (30 April 1924, Bautzen – 29 December 2017, Göttingen) was a German mathematician known for his work on partial differential equations, in particular the Monge–Ampère equation. He worked as professor in Stanford, Munich and from ...

* 1996

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 ...

* 1999

Volker Strassen Volker Strassen (born April 29, 1936) is a German mathematician, a professor emeritus in the department of mathematics and statistics at the University of Konstanz. For important contributions to the analysis of algorithms he has received many a ...

* 2002

Yuri Manin Yuri Ivanovich Manin (; 16 February 1937 – 7 January 2023) was a Russian mathematician, known for work in algebraic geometry and diophantine geometry, and many expository works ranging from mathematical logic to theoretical physics. Life an ...

* 2004

Friedrich Hirzebruch Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch ForMemRS (17 October 1927 – 27 May 2012) was a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation. He has been described as ...

* 2006 Hans Föllmer * 2008

Hans Grauert Hans Grauert (8 February 1930 in Haren, Emsland, Germany – 4 September 2011) was a German mathematician. He is known for major works on several complex variables, complex manifolds and the application of sheaf theory in this area, which i ...

* 2010

Matthias Kreck Matthias Kreck (born 22 July 1947, in Dillenburg) is a German mathematician who works in the areas of Algebraic Topology and Differential topology. From 1994 to 2002 he was director of the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics and from Oc ...

* 2012

Michael Struwe Michael Struwe (born 6 October 1955 in Wuppertal) is a German mathematician who specializes in calculus of variations and nonlinear partial differential equations. He won the 2012 Cantor medal from the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung for "outs ...

* 2014

Herbert Spohn Herbert Spohn (born 1 November 1946) is a German mathematician and mathematical physicist working in kinetic equations, dynamics of stochastic particle systems, hydrodynamic limit, kinetics of growth processes, disordered systems, open quantum sy ...

* 2017

Gerd Faltings Gerd Faltings (; born 28 July 1954) is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic geometry. Education From 1972 to 1978, Faltings studied mathematics and physics at the University of Münster. Interrupted by 15 months of obligatory ...

* 2019

Hélène Esnault Hélène Esnault (born 17 July 1953) is a French and German mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. Career Born in Paris, Esnault earned her PhD in 1976 from the University of Paris VII. She wrote her dissertation on ''Singularites r ...

* 2021 Martin Grötschel * 2024 Felix Otto

References

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Prize winners

See also

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