2002年开始在挪威发布,奖金$1m左右,可以认为类似其他科学的诺奖。在此以前,最盛名的是fields奖和以色列的wolf奖。前者只奖给40岁以下,而且4年一次,有点像天才奖。后者可能有些反犹国家人不喜欢。
简介完了,重点是吹一下附近的普林斯顿数学系,过去十二年获奖者中,有九年相关。
Wigderson, Ph.D 1983, is the ninth Abel Prize recipient linked to Princeton. The 2020 prize was awarded to Hillel Furstenberg, a 1958 Ph.D. alumnus. The 2019 prize went to Karen Uhlenbeck, a recipient of a 2012 honorary degree who was then a visiting senior research scholar in mathematics at Princeton; Robert Langlands received the 2018 prize for a theory he developed while an associate professor at Princeton; the 2016 prize went to Andrew Wiles, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus; late University mathematician John Nash shared the 2015 prize with Louis Nirenberg of New York University; the 2014 prize went to mathematics Professor Yakov Sinai; the 2011 prize went to John Milnor of the Class of 1951, who received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton in 1954 and taught in the department until 1970; and John Tate, a 1950 Ph.D. alumnus, won the 2010 prize.