The Ostrowski Prize is a

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given biennially for outstanding research accomplishments in mathematics and

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Alexander Ostrowski Alexander Markowich Ostrowski (; ; 25 September 1893 – 20 November 1986) was a mathematician. Biography His father Mark having been a merchant, Alexander Ostrowski attended the Kiev College of Commerce, not a high school, and thus had an ins ...

, a longtime professor at the

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, left his estate to the Ostrowski Foundation in order to establish the prize.

Recipients

* 1989:

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* 1991:

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:

Miklós Laczkovich Miklós Laczkovich (born 21 February 1948) is a Hungarian mathematician mainly noted for his work on real analysis and geometric measure theory. His most famous result is the solution of Tarski's circle-squaring problem in 1989.Ruthen, R. (1989 ...

and

Marina Ratner Marina Evseevna Ratner (; October 30, 1938 – July 7, 2017) was a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who worked in ergodic theory. Around 1990, she proved a group of major theorems concerning unipotent flows on h ...

* 1995: Andrew J. Wiles * 1997: Yuri V. Nesterenko and Gilles I. Pisier * 1999: Alexander A. Beilinson and Helmut H. Hofer * 2001:

Henryk Iwaniec Henryk Iwaniec (born October 9, 1947) is a Polish-American mathematician, and since 1987 a professor at Rutgers University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Polish Academy of Sciences. He has made important contribu ...

, Peter Sarnak, and Richard L. Taylor * 2003: Paul Seymour * 2005: Ben Green and Terence Tao * 2007: Oded Schramm * 2009: Sorin Popa * 2011: Ib Madsen, David Preiss, and

Kannan Soundararajan Kannan Soundararajan (born December 27, 1973) is an Indian-born American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Before moving to Stanford in 2006, he was a faculty member at University of Michigan, where he had also ...

* 2013:

Yitang Zhang Yitang Zhang (; born February 5, 1955) is a Chinese-American mathematician primarily working on number theory and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara since 2015. Previously working at the University of New ...

* 2015: Peter Scholze * 2017: Akshay Venkatesh * 2019: Assaf Naor * 2021: * 2023:

Jacob Tsimerman Jacob Tsimerman (born 1988) is a Canadian mathematician at the University of Toronto specialising in number theory and related areas. He was awarded the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in the year 2015 in recognition for his work on the André–Oort co ...

References

{{reflist Mathematics awards Awards established in 1989