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The Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics is an annual award of the Breakthrough Prize series announced in 2013. It is funded by Yuri Milner [ 1 ] and Mark Zuckerberg and others. [ 2 ] The annual award comes with a cash gift of $3 million.
The Breakthrough Prizes are a set of international awards bestowed in three categories by the Breakthrough Prize Board in recognition of scientific advances. [1] [2] The awards are part of several "Breakthrough" initiatives founded and funded by Yuri Milner and his wife Julia Milner, along with Breakthrough Initiatives and Breakthrough Junior Challenge.
Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics: Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg: Chern Medal: International Mathematical Union: Outstanding lifelong achievement Copley Medal: Royal Society: Outstanding achievement David Hilbert Award: World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions: Development of mathematics worldwide Felix Chayes Prize
He was named as the recipient of the 2014 Bôcher Prize [3] of the American Mathematical Society. In 2017, he received a Simons Investigator Award [4] and the Fermat Prize. In 2023, he received the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.
Lurie was one of the inaugural winners of the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2014, "for his work on the foundations of higher category theory and derived algebraic geometry; for the classification of fully extended topological quantum field theories; and for providing a moduli-theoretic interpretation of elliptic cohomology."
The Riemann Hypothesis. Today’s mathematicians would probably agree that the Riemann Hypothesis is the most significant open problem in all of math. It’s one of the seven Millennium Prize ...
(Reuters) - Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani on Wednesday became the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal, mathematics' equivalent to the Nobel Prize. The professor at Stanford ...
Prizes are often awarded for the solution to a long-standing problem, and some lists of unsolved problems, such as the Millennium Prize Problems, receive considerable attention. This list is a composite of notable unsolved problems mentioned in previously published lists, including but not limited to lists considered authoritative, and the ...