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. Some of the awards are limited to work in a particular field, such as topology or analysis, while others are given for any type of mathematical contribution.
| Award | Sponsor | Recipients/Achievement | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outstanding lifelong achievement | |||
| World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions | Development of mathematics worldwide | ||
| Research in mathematical petrology | |||
| Young mathematicians | |||
| Research in spatial statistics or mathematical morphology | |||
| International Linear Algebra Society | Research in linear algebra | ||
| Researchers from developing countries less than 45 years old | |||
| Research in mathematical aspects of information sciences | - | ||
| Research in statistics | |||
| Teaching about the intersection of mathematics or informatics and the Earth's nonrenewable natural resources or sedimentary geology | |||
| Promoting the history of mathematics internationally | |||
| Outreach | |||
| World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions | Developing mathematics competitions | ||
| Rousseeuw Foundation | Research in statistics | ||
| International Linear Algebra Society | Research in linear algebra and matrix theory |
| Country | Award | Sponsor | Recipients/Achievement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | Expository articles | |||
| Canada | Mathematics education in Canada | |||
| Canada | Younger Canadian mathematicians | |||
| Canada | Younger Canadian mathematicians | |||
| Canada | Research | |||
| Canada | CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics[1] | Younger statisticians | ||
| Canada | Canadian Operator Symposium | Research in operator theory or operator algebras | ||
| Canada | Research | |||
| Canada | Research | |||
| Canada | Women in mathematics | |||
| Canada | Research in number theory | |||
| Canada | SSC Gold Medal[2] | Career award for outstanding contributions to statistics, or to probability, in either theoretical or applied work | ||
| Chile | ||||
| United States | Notable paper from an AIM activity | |||
| United States | Mathematicians who received their doctorates 3-12 years ago | |||
| United States | Research within the past five years | |||
| United States | Volunteer service | |||
| United States | Women in mathematics or in mathematics education | |||
| United States | Women who have made significant contributions to applied or computational mathematics. | |||
| United States | Young female researcher in algebra or number theory | |||
| United States | Notable exposition and exceptional scholarship in the mathematics history | |||
| United States | Undergraduate women | |||
| United States | Young scientist for promising contributions in applied mathematics or informatics related to earth sciences | |||
| United States | Distinguished, innovative books published by the Mathematical Association of America | |||
| United States | Significant research contributions in their field, and who has worked to address under-representation of minority groups in mathematics | |||
| United States | Substantial contribution to research in pure mathematics (No longer awarded) | |||
| United States | Notable research memoir in analysis | |||
| United States | COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship(R. A. Fisher Lectureship) | Achievement and scholarship in statistical science | ||
| United States | Outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics | |||
| United States | Expository excellence published in Mathematics Magazine | |||
| United States | Outstanding expository article on a mathematical topic | |||
| United States | Two prizes: Outstanding contribution to algebra, outstanding contribution to number theory | |||
| United States | Mathematical physics | |||
| United States | Research has a major impact on the field of mathematical programming | |||
| United States | Novel research in algebra, combinatorics, or discrete mathematics | |||
| United States | College or university teachers whose success has had far-reaching influence | |||
| United States | Outstanding research article which appeared in one of the AMS primary research journals | |||
| United States | High school teachers whose students performed well on the AMC 12 | |||
| United States | Individual who has helped foster opportunities in statistics for women | |||
| United States | Outstanding book in mathematics that is likely to improve the public view of the field | |||
| United States | Female statistician who exemplifies the contributions of Florence Nightingale David and proven herself to be an outstanding role model | |||
| United States | Excellence in the execution of operations research on the organizational level | |||
| United States | Best contribution to operations research and the management sciences published in English | |||
| United States | Outstanding papers in discrete mathematics | |||
| United States | Outstanding contribution to applied mathematics | |||
| United States | Articles of expository excellence published in the College Mathematics Journal | |||
| United States | For a notable application of combinatorial theory; or for a notable contribution in another area of interest to George Pólya such as approximation theory, complex analysis, number theory, etc. | |||
| United States | Outstanding and lasting contributions to the field of vital and health statistics at the national, state, or local level | |||
| United States | Distinguished career contributions to combinatorics by an active member of the institute | |||
| United States | Outstanding achievements by members under age 40 | |||
| United States | Outstanding achievements by members who are within four years past their Ph.D. | |||
| United States | Achievements in dynamical systems | |||
| United States | Outstanding contributions in numerical software | |||
| United States | Research in, or other contributions to, numerical analysis and scientific computing | |||
| United States | Outstanding young female researcher in topology or geometry | |||
| United States | Outstanding contributions to applied mathematical sciences and effective communication of those ideas to the community | |||
| United States | Contributions to theory in operations research and management sciences | |||
| United States | Outstanding achievement in applied mathematics | |||
| United States | Outstanding paper or book on symbolic logic | |||
| United States | Use of Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) data in analysis | |||
| United States | Mathematics | |||
| United States | Outstanding expository papers published in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society or the Notices of the American Mathematical Society | |||
| United States | Contributions as a math educator | |||
| United States | Outstanding contributions in mathematical probability for those under age 45 | |||
| United States | Mathematics educators who have exhibited outstanding mentorship | |||
| United States | Special work or service to mathematics or the broader mathematics community | |||
| United States | Exceptional expository paper appearing in an MAA publication, at least one of whose authors is a younger mathematician | |||
| United States | Michael Brin | Mathematicians who have made outstanding advances in dynamical systems and are within 14 years of their PhD | ||
| United States | Solution to any of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, Hodge conjecture, Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness, P versus NP problem, Poincaré conjecture, Riemann hypothesis, and Yang–Mills existence and mass gap. | |||
| United States | Outstanding paper in applied mathematics, including numerical analysis, by a young researcher | |||
| United States | Undergraduate student in North America who demonstrates superior mathematics research | |||
| United States | Excellence of research in the mathematical sciences | |||
| United States | Mathematics | |||
| United States | Women who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences | |||
| United States | Outstanding contribution to applied mathematics | |||
| United States | Notable research in geometry or topology | |||
| United States | Authors of articles of expository excellence published in The American Mathematical Monthly or Mathematics Magazine | |||
| United States | Kindergarten through 12th-grade mathematics or science teacher | |||
| United States | COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship (R. A. Fisher Lectureship) | Achievement and scholarship in statistical science | ||
| United States | Innovations and contributions in cryptography and related mathematics | |||
| United States | Computer-assisted proof | |||
| United States | Early career researcher who has done outstanding research in applied mathematics | |||
| United States | Outstanding research by a female mathematician who has recently earned tenure | |||
| United States | Outstanding contribution to mathematics research by a woman | |||
| United States | Outstanding members of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics | |||
| United States | Outstanding young female researcher in mathematical analysis | |||
| United States | Young mathematicians, for outstanding work in Raphaël Salem's field of interest | |||
| United States | Outstanding technical leadership in modern quality control | |||
| United States | Support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars | |||
| United States | Statistician for contribution to biometry | |||
| United States | Mathematical research in the theory and applications of the kernel function and its applications, or function-theoretic methods for elliptic partial differential equations | |||
| United States | Distinction in mathematical logic and series of lectures | |||
| United States | Outstanding mathematics graduate student | |||
| United States | Notable application of mathematics to mechanics and/or the engineering sciences | |||
| United States | Mathematics student at Columbia College deemed most proficient in the mathematical subjects | |||
| United States | Outstanding research in, or other contributions to, differential equations and control theory | |||
| United States | Outstanding contributions to statistics | |||
| United States | Distinction in application of mathematics or informatics to the earth sciences, service to the IAMG, and support to professions involved in the earth sciences | |||
| United States | Undergraduates at institutions of higher learning in the United States and Canada |
| Country | Award | Sponsor | Achievement/Recipients | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| China | Chinese mathematicians and those of Chinese descent for exceptional contributions to mathematical research or to public service activities in support of mathematics | |||
| China | Exceptional mathematicians of Chinese descent under age of 45 for achievements in mathematics and applied mathematics | |||
| Hong Kong | Shaw Prize Foundation | Outstanding contributions in astronomy, life science and medicine, and mathematical sciences | ||
| India | Outstanding achievements of contemporary researchers and scientists across six categories, including Mathematical Sciences | |||
| India | Young mathematician, for outstanding work in Ramanujan's fields of interest | |||
| India | Work in the mathematical sciences | |||
| Israel | Israeli mathematician in any field of mathematics and computer science | |||
| Israel | Israel Brain Technologies | Significantly advanced the understanding of the neural mechanisms of perception, behavior and thought through the application of mathematical analysis and modeling | ||
| Israel | Mathematicians | |||
| Japan | Significant or long-time research works in the field of geometry, including differential geometry, topology, and algebraic geometry | |||
| Japan | Global achievement in basic sciences | |||
| South Korea | Korea Science Award | Ministry of Science and ICT, National Research Foundation of Korea | Prizes in various categories of science, including one for math.[3] | |
| Pakistan | International Centre for Theoretical Physics Pakistan chapter | Pakistani nationals in the field of chemistry, mathematics, physics, biology |
| Country | Award | Sponsor | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Europe | European Mathematical Society Prizes[4] | Excellent contributions in Mathematics by researchers younger than age 35 | ||
| Europe | European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics | Researcher in computer science and applied mathematics | ||
| Europe | Outstanding contribution to the field of operations research | |||
| Europe | Research in combinatorics | |||
| Europe | European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics | Outstanding work in the development and the application of statistical methods in European business and industry | ||
| Europe | European Set Theory Society | Impactful work in set theory | ||
| Europe | Exceptional contributions to mathematical modelling in finance, insurance, risk management and/or scientific computing applied to finance and insurance | |||
| Armenia | Former student of an Armenian university, who is under the age of thirty-five, for outstanding contributions in algebra, geometry, topology, and number theory | |||
| Austria | Promising young mathematician for outstanding achievements | |||
| Belgium | Best mathematical or experimental work contributing to the progress of mathematical knowledge | |||
| Belgium | Progress in pure mathematics | |||
| Belgium | Progress in synthetic or analytic superior geometry | |||
| Belgium | Progress in mathematical analysis | |||
| France | Outstanding research work in mathematics or physics | |||
| France | Outstanding PhD theses in logic, language, and information | |||
| France | Mathematician who has introduced new ideas or solved a difficult problem | |||
| France | Research into statements of variational principles, foundations of probability and analytic geometry, or Number theory. | |||
| France | Young researchers under age 35 in non-military applied mathematics and physics | |||
| France | Important discoveries in mathematics, physics, and biology | |||
| France | Mathematician under 30 years old | |||
| France | Institut de France etc. | Eminent mathematician. Established in 1914 and eliminated in 1997 in favor of the Grande Médaille | ||
| France | Work contributing to the progress of pure or (mostly) applied mathematics | |||
| France | Authors of works useful to the progress of pure and applied mathematics (discontinued) | |||
| France | Mathematics prize | |||
| France | Outstanding mathematician | |||
| Germany | Work in mathematical analysis (awarded 1912 to 1941) | |||
| Germany | Mathematicians who are associated with the German language | |||
| Germany | Outstanding mathematical contributions that have found significant applications outside of mathematics | |||
| Germany | Current developments in mathematics, aimed at the interested public | |||
| Germany | Oberwolfach Prize[5] | Young European mathematician for excellent achievements in changing fields of mathematics | ||
| Germany | Young scientist (not older than 36) for outstanding scientific achievements in applied mathematics and mechanics | |||
| Hungary | Outstanding performance in mathematics research | |||
| Hungary | Mathematicians having published their monograph describing their own highly important new results | |||
| Hungary | Hungarian mathematicians not older than 40 | |||
| Italy | Italian mathematician not exceeding the age of 38 who established a wide international reputation | |||
| Italy | Original contributions to the field of numerical methods for partial differential equations | |||
| Italy | Riemann International School of Mathematics | Outstanding mathematicians between 40 and 65 years of age | ||
| Italy | Outstanding contributions to the field of calculus of variations and related applications | |||
| Italy | Italian mathematician not exceeding the age of 40, in recognition of his/her contributions to the field of Mathematical Analysis | |||
| Italy | Female Italian mathematicians below the age of 40 | |||
| Norway | Outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics | |||
| Poland | Achievements to mathematics | |||
| Romania | Achievements in mathematics | |||
| Russia | Outstanding achievements in natural sciences and humanities | |||
| Russia | Outstanding contributions to geometry | |||
| Russia | Award in honor of Nikolai Lobachevsky | |||
| Spain | Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Foundation | Outstanding expository monograph, presenting the latest developments in an active area of research | ||
| Sweden | Mathematics | |||
| Sweden | Research by a Swedish mathematician that has a Ph.D. but no permanent research position | |||
| Switzerland | Outstanding scientific work in pure mathematics | |||
| Switzerland | Ostrowski Foundation | Outstanding achievements in pure mathematics and in the foundations of numerical mathematics | ||
| United Kingdom | Distinguished research in the mathematical sciences | |||
| United Kingdom | Work in, influence on or service to mathematics, particularly in relation to advancing the careers of women in mathematics | |||
| United Kingdom | Recognition of an outstanding piece of mathematical research | |||
| United Kingdom | Major breakthroughs in mathematical research | |||
| United Kingdom | Honorific medal awarded to mathematicians | |||
| United Kingdom | Contributions to mathematics | |||
| United Kingdom | Research mathematician from the United Kingdom who has made an eminent contribution to mathematics and can communicate ideas effectively to a broader audience | |||
| United Kingdom | Original and extremely innovative work in any branch of mathematics | |||
| United Kingdom | Original work done by scientists resident in or connected with Scotland | |||
| United Kingdom | Distinction in statistics | |||
| United Kingdom | Individual or group for excellence and innovation in using technology to enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics | |||
| United Kingdom | Outstanding contributions to mathematics and its applications over a period of years | |||
| United Kingdom | Scientific paper published in the society's scientific journals, preference being given to a paper containing a discovery, either in mathematics or earth sciences (No longer awarded) | |||
| United Kingdom | Distinguished researchers with life-long contributions to one of the fields initiated by Andrey Kolmogorov | |||
| United Kingdom | Young numerical analysts worldwide | |||
| United Kingdom | Lighthill-Thwaites Prize for Applied Mathematics | Institute of Mathematics and its Applications | Early career applied mathematicians worldwide. | |
| United Kingdom | Student showing the greatest distinction in applied mathematics | |||
| United Kingdom | Work in applied mathematics and/or the applications of mathematics, and lecturing gifts | |||
| United Kingdom | Book in English (including books in translation) dealing with the history of mathematics and aimed at a broad audience | |||
| United Kingdom | Outstanding creativity in, imaginative exposition of, or distinguished contribution to, mathematics within the United Kingdom | |||
| United Kingdom | Rollo Davidson Trust | Early-career probabilists | ||
| United Kingdom | Work in, influence on or service to mathematics, or recognition of lecturing gifts in the field of mathematics | |||
| United Kingdom | Making a contribution to mathematics with a strong intuitive component | |||
| United Kingdom | Outstanding young mathematician having a specified connection with Scotland | |||
| United Kingdom | Research students in mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge | |||
| United Kingdom | Early- to mid-career stage scientist rather than an established mathematician | |||
| United Kingdom | Greatest distinction in actuarial science, finance, insurance, mathematics of operational research, probability, risk and statistics in the Master of Mathematics/Master of Advanced Studies examinations | |||
| United Kingdom | Best performance in subjects relating to astronomy | |||
| United Kingdom | Mathematicians working in the United Kingdom who are at an early stage of their career | |||
| United Kingdom | Student who gains first-class honours in the third year of the University's undergraduate degree in mathematics | |||
| United Kingdom | Outstanding achievements in research in any branch of science. |
| Country | Award | Sponsor | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | Distinguished mathematical sciences research by members of the Australian Mathematical Society | |||
| Australia | Outstanding research contributions over a fifteen-year period | |||
| Australia | Achievements by Australians in the fields of pure mathematics, applied and computational mathematics, and statistical science | |||
| Australia | Outstanding research by Australian scientists under 40 years of age in applied probability, biometrics, mathematical genetics, psychometrics, and statistics | |||
| Australia | Early career research | |||
| Australia | Mathematician or physicist | |||
| New Zealand | Researcher who has undertaken work of great scientific or technological merit and has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the particular branch of science | |||
| New Zealand | Aitken Lectureship | New Zealand Mathematical Society | To complete a lecture tour of UK universities, awarded alternately with the Forder Lectureship.[6] |