The John von Neumann Prize (until 2019 named John von Neumann Lecture Prize) was funded in 1959 with support from
IBM
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and other industry corporations, and began being awarded in 1960 for "outstanding and distinguished contributions to the field of applied mathematical sciences and for the effective communication of these ideas to the community". It is considered the highest honor bestowed by the
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is a professional society dedicated to applied mathematics, computational science, and data science through research, publications, and community. SIAM is the world's largest scientific soci ...
(SIAM). The recipient receives a monetary award and presents a survey lecture at the SIAM Annual Meeting.
Selection process
Anybody is able to nominate a mathematician for the prize. Nominations are reviewed by a selection committee, consisting of members of SIAM who serve two-year appointments. The committee selects one recipient for the prize nine months before the SIAM Annual Meeting and forwards their nomination to SIAM's Executive Committee and Vice President for Programs.
Mark Kac
Mark Kac ( ; Polish: ''Marek Kac''; August 3, 1914 – October 26, 1984) was a Polish-American mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, " Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, th ...
*1962:
Jean Leray
Jean Leray (; 7 November 1906 – 10 November 1998) was a French mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology.
Life and career
He was born in Chantenay-sur-Loire (today part of Nantes). He studied at Éc ...
Solomon Lefschetz
Solomon Lefschetz (; 3 September 1884 – 5 October 1972) was a Russian-born American mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential equatio ...
*1965:
Freeman Dyson
Freeman John Dyson (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020) was a British-American theoretical physics, theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his works in quantum field theory, astrophysics, random matrix, random matrices, math ...
Chia-Chiao Lin
Chia-Chiao Lin (; 7 July 1916 – 13 January 2013) was a Chinese-born American applied mathematician and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Lin made major contributions to the theory of hydrodynamic stabilit ...
James H. Wilkinson
James Hardy Wilkinson FRS (27 September 1919 – 5 October 1986) was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science particularly useful to physics and engineering.
Ed ...
Jule Charney
Jule Gregory Charney (January 1, 1917 – June 16, 1981) was an American meteorologist who played an important role in developing numerical weather prediction and increasing understanding of the general circulation of the atmosphere by devisin ...
*1975: Sir
James Lighthill
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Kenneth J. Arrow
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Kurt O. Friedrichs
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Biography
Friedrichs wa ...
*1980:
Keith Stewartson
Keith Stewartson (20 September 1925 – 7 May 1983) was an English mathematician and fellow of the Royal Society.
Early life
The youngest of three children, Stewartson was born to an English baker in 1925. He was raised in Billingham, County Dur ...
*1981:
Garrett Birkhoff
Garrett Birkhoff (January 19, 1911 – November 22, 1996) was an American mathematician. He is best known for his work in lattice theory.
The mathematician George Birkhoff (1884–1944) was his father.
Life
The son of the mathematician Ge ...
John W. Tukey
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*1986:
Jacques-Louis Lions
Jacques-Louis Lions (; 2 May 1928 – 17 May 2001) was a French mathematician who made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control, among other areas. He received the SIAM's John von Neumann Lecture p ...
*1987:
Richard M. Karp
Richard Manning Karp (born January 3, 1935) is an American computer scientist and computational theorist at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most notable for his research in the theory of algorithms, for which he received a Turing ...
*1988:
Germund Dahlquist
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Dahlquist began to study mathematics ...
*1989:
Stephen Smale
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R. Tyrrell Rockafellar
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*1993: No award was made
*1994: Martin D. Kruskal
*1995: No award was made
*1996:
Carl de Boor
Carl-Wilhelm Reinhold de Boor (born 3 December 1937) is an American mathematician and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
In 1993, de Boor was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for contributio ...
*1997:
William Kahan
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*1998:
Olga Ladyzhenskaya
Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya ( rus, Ольга Александровна Ладыженская, links=no, p=ˈolʲɡə ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvnə ɫɐˈdɨʐɨnskəɪ̯ə, a=Ru-Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya.wav; 7 March 1922 – 12 January 2 ...
Persi Diaconis
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He is particularly known f ...
Heinz-Otto Kreiss
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Jerrold E. Marsden
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Nancy Kopell
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Franco Brezzi
Franco Brezzi (born 29 April 1945 in Vimercate) is an Italian mathematician.
Education
Brezzi graduated in 1967 at the Università di Pavia under the supervision of Enrico Magenes. He was full professor of Mathematical Analysis at the Politecni ...
*2010:
Bernd Sturmfels
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*2011:
Ingrid Daubechies
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Daubechies is recognized for her study of the mathematical methods that ...
*2012: Sir
John M. Ball
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Jennifer Tour Chayes
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Yousef Saad
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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 ...