Abel Prize

Jewish recipients of the Abel Prize documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 28% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.

28%of all recipients are Jewish

8 documented recipients

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IS

Isadore Singer1983

Co-author of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem uniting analysis and topology; Abel Prize (2004)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the US National Medal of Science

PL

Peter Lax1926

Partial differential equations; Lax pairs and Lax-Milgram (Abel Prize)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

MG

Mikhail Gromov2009

Geometer who reshaped modern geometry; Abel Prize (2009), Wolf Prize (1993)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

YS

Yakov Sinai1935

Dynamical systems and statistical mechanics (Abel Prize)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Louis Nirenberg1925

Partial differential equations; Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequalities (Abel Prize)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

HF

Hillel Furstenberg1935

Ergodic theory and its links to number theory (Abel Prize)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

GM

Gregori Margulis1946

Lie groups and ergodic theory (Fields Medal, Abel Prize)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

AW

Avi Wigderson1956

Foundational work on complexity and randomness; Turing Award laureate.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science