The Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics is a $5000 prize awarded, every three years, for an outstanding contribution to "applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense." It was endowed in 1967 in honor of
Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and philosopher. He became a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT). A child prodigy, Wiener late ...
by
MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and sc ...
's
mathematics
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...
department and is provided jointly by the
American Mathematical Society
The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...
and
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 ...
and first issued in 1970. The recipient of the prize has to be a member of one of the awarding societies.
Winners
* 1970:
Richard E. Bellman
* 1975:
Peter D. Lax
* 1980:
Tosio Kato and
Gerald B. Whitham
* 1985:
Clifford S. Gardner
* 1990:
Michael Aizenman
Michael Aizenman (; born 28 August 1945) is an American-Israeli mathematician and a physicist at Princeton University, working in the fields of mathematical physics, statistical mechanics, functional analysis and probability theory.
The highligh ...
and
Jerrold E. Marsden
* 1995:
Hermann Flaschka and
Ciprian Foias
Ciprian Ilie Foiaș (20 July 1933 – 22 March 2020) was a Romanian-American mathematician. He was awarded the Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics in 1995, for his contributions in operator theory.
Education and career
Born in Reșița, ...
* 2000:
Alexandre J. Chorin and
Arthur Winfree
* 2004:
James A. Sethian
* 2007:
Craig Tracy and
Harold Widom
* 2010:
David Donoho
David Leigh Donoho (born March 5, 1957) is an American statistician. He is a professor of statistics at Stanford University, where he is also the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the Humanities and Sciences. His work includes the developm ...
* 2013:
Andrew Majda
* 2016:
Constantine M. Dafermos
* 2019:
Marsha Berger and
Arkadi Nemirovski
Arkadi Nemirovski (; born March 14, 1947) is a professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been a leader in continuous optimization and is best known for his wo ...
* 2022:
Eitan Tadmor
* 2025:
Robert McCann
See also
*
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 ...
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Prizes named after people
This is a list of awards that are named after people.
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See also
* Lists of awards
* List of eponyms
* List of awards named after governo ...
References
External links
AMS webpage for the prizeSIAM webpage for the prize
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Awards of the American Mathematical Society
Awards established in 1970
Triennial events
Awards of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
1970 establishments in the United States