Bolyai Prize Explained

The International János Bolyai Prize of Mathematics is an international prize founded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The prize is named after János Bolyai and is awarded every five years^[1] to mathematicians for monographs with important new results in the preceding 10 years.

Medalists

• 1905 – Henri Poincaré
• 1910 – David Hilbert
• 2000 – Saharon Shelah for his Cardinal Arithmetic, Oxford University Press, 1994. ^[2]
• 2005 – Mikhail Gromov for his Metric Structures for Riemannian and Non-Riemannian Spaces, Birkhäuser, 1999.
• 2010 – Yuri I. Manin for his Frobenius Manifolds, Quantum Cohomology, and Moduli Spaces, American Mathematical Society, 1999. ^[3]
• 2015 – Barry Simon for his Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle, American Mathematical Society, 2005. ^[4]
• 2020 - Terence Tao for his Nonlinear Dispersive Equations: Local and Global Analysis, American Mathematical Society, 2006. ^[5]

See also

• List of mathematics awards

Notes and References

1. Szénássy B.: Adalékok a Bolyai-díj történetéhez, Természet Világa, 124(1993),7, 291 - 294.
2. Web site: Laudation of Shelah on the occasion of winning the Bolyai Prize (in Hungarian).
3. Web site: Hungarian Academy of Sciences presents the János Bolyai International Mathematical Prize . 1 April 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110718044545/http://www.math.bme.hu/akademia/jbimp.html . 18 July 2011 .
4. http://mta.hu/news_and_views/mta-international-bolyai-prize-goes-to-barry-simon-135978/''Bolyai Prize goes to Barry Simon
5. Web site: Terence Tao is the 2020 winner of the János Bolyai International Mathematical Prize (in Hungarian). Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 3 May 2021. 8 August 2021.