Abel Prize for Mathematics Winners List (2003-2025)

Abel Prize is a prestigious international award in mathematics, recognizing outstanding contributions to the field. Established in 2002, it honors groundbreaking research and lifetime achievements in mathematics.

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Abel Prize for Mathematics 2025

The Abel Prize for Mathematics 2025 has been awarded to Masaki Kashiwara, a 78-year-old Japanese mathematician.
He was honoured for his fundamental contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory, particularly his development of the theory of D-modules and the discovery of crystal bases.

About the Abel Prize

Abel Prize is the world’s highest honour in mathematics.
Named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829).
It was established in 2001 by the Norwegian government.
It is Awarded annually by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Abel Prize is considered an alternative to the Nobel Prize, which does not include a category for mathematics.

Abel Prize Winners List from 2003 to 2025

Year	Name	Discovery
2003	Jean-Pierre Serre	For playing a key role in shaping the modern form of many parts of mathematics, including topology, algebraic geometry and number theory.
2004	Isadore M. Singer	For their discovery and proof of the index theorem, bringing together topology, geometry and analysis, and their outstanding role in building new bridges between mathematics and theoretical physics.
2004	Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
2005	Peter D. Lax	For his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions.
2006	Lennart Carleson	for his profound and seminal contributions to harmonic analysis and the theory of smooth dynamical systems.
2007	Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan	For his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviations.
2008	Jacques Tits	For their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory.
2008	John Griggs Thompson	For their profound achievements in algebra and, in particular, for shaping modern group theory.
2009	Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov	For his revolutionary contributions to geometry.
2010	John Torrence Tate	For his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers.
2011	John Milnor	For pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry, and algebra.
2012	Endre Szemerédi	For his fundamental contributions to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, and in recognition of the profound and lasting impact of these contributions on additive number theory and ergodic theory.
2013	Pierre Deligne	For his seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact on number theory, representation theory, and related fields.
2014	Yakov G. Sinai	For his fundamental contributions to dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and mathematical physics.
2015	Louis Nirenberg	For their striking and seminal contributions to the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and its applications to geometric analysis.
2015	John F. Nash
2016	Sir Andrew J. Wiles	For his stunning proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem by way of the modularity conjecture for semistable elliptic curves, opening a new era in number theory.
2017	Yves Meyer	For his pivotal role in the development of the mathematical theory of wavelets.
2018	Robert P. Langlands	For his visionary program connecting representation theory to number theory.
2019	Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck	For her pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory, and integrable systems, and for the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry, and mathematical physics.
2020	Gregory Margulis	For pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory, and combinatorics.
2020	Hillel Furstenberg
2021	Avi Wigderson	For their foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, and their leading roles in shaping them into central fields of modern mathematics.
2021	László Lovász
2022	Dennis Parnell Sullivan	For his groundbreaking contributions to topology in its broadest sense, and in particular its algebraic, geometric, and dynamical aspects.
2023	Luis A. Caffarelli	For his seminal contributions to regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations, including free-boundary problems and the Monge-Ampère equation.
2024	Michel Talagrand	For his groundbreaking contributions to probability theory and functional analysis, with outstanding applications in mathematical physics and statistics.
2025	Masaki Kashiwara	For his groundbreaking contributions to algebraic analysis and the theory of D-modules