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  • Sir Andrew Wiles
    Sir Andrew John Wiles KBE FRS is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in number theory. He is most notable for proving Fermat's Last ...
  • Jean Bourgain, Fields Medal 1994 (1954 - 2018)
    Jean Bourgain (28 February 1954 – 22 December 2018) was a Belgian mathematician. He was, from 1985 until 1995, a professor at Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques at Bures-sur-Yvette in France, and...
  • Dr. Marina Evseevna Ratner (1938 - 2017)
    Marina Ratner, an influential mathematician and Russian-Jewish émigré who defied the notion that the best and the brightest in her field do their finest work when they are young, died on July 7 at her ...
  • Terence Tao
    Terence "Terry" Chi-Shen Tao FAA FRS is an Australian-American mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics. He currently focuses on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, a...
  • Peter Scholze (photo: George Bergman)
    Peter Scholze, Fields Medal 2018
    Peter Scholze (born 11 December 1987) is a German mathematician known for his work in algebraic geometry. He has been a professor at the University of Bonn since 2012, and director at the Max Planck In...

The Ostrowski Prize is a mathematics award given every odd year for outstanding mathematical achievement judged by an international jury from the universities of Basel, Jerusalem, Waterloo and the academies of Denmark and the Netherlands. Alexander Ostrowski, a longtime professor at the University of Basel, left his estate to the foundation in order to establish a prize for outstanding achievements in pure mathematics and the foundations of numerical mathematics. It currently carries a monetary award of 100,000 Swiss francs.

Recipients

   1989: Louis de Branges (France / United States)
   1991: Jean Bourgain, Fields Medal 1994 (Belgium)
   1993: Miklós Laczkovich (Hungary) and Dr. Marina Evseevna Ratner (Russia / United States)
   1995: Sir Andrew Wiles (UK)
   1997: Yuri V. Nesterenko (Russia) and Gilles I. Pisier (France)
   1999: Alexander A. Beilinson (Russia / United States) and Helmut H. Hofer (Switzerland / United States)
   2001: Henryk Iwaniec (Poland / United States) and Peter Sarnak (South Africa / United States) and Richard L. Taylor (UK / United States)
   2003: Paul Seymour (UK)
   2005: Ben Green (UK) and Terence Tao (Australia / United States)
   2007: Oded Schramm (Israel / United States)
   2009: Sorin Popa (Romania / United States)
   2011: Ib Madsen (Denmark), David Preiss (UK) and Kannan Soundararajan (India / United States)
   2013: Yitang Zhang (United States)
   2015: Peter Scholze, Fields Medal 2018 (Germany)
   2017: Akshay Venkatesh (India / Australia)
   2019: Assaf Naor (Israel / USA)
   2021: Timothy Derek Austin [ (UK)
   2023: Jacob Tsimerman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrowski_Prize