Cole Prize (algebra & number theory)
Jewish recipients of the Cole Prize (algebra & number theory) documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 36% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.
24 documented recipients
A. Adrian Albert1905
Abstract algebra; theory of associative and non-associative algebras
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Oscar Zariski1899
Algebraic geometry; the Zariski topology
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Henry B. Mann1946
Number theorist of the Mann sumset theorem; Cole Prize (1946)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics (prize lists)
Richard Brauer1901
Representation theory; the Brauer group and modular characters
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Paul Erdős1949
Combinatorics and Graph Theory
Source: Prolific mathematician with 1500+ papers
Serge Lang1927
Number theory and algebra; prolific textbook author
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Maxwell Rosenlicht1924
Algebraic groups and differential algebra
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Bernard Dwork1923
Number theory; p-adic proof of the rationality of zeta functions
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Walter Feit1930
Group theory; the Feit-Thompson odd-order theorem
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
James Ax1937
Number theory and logic; the Ax-Kochen theorem
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Simon Kochen1934
Logic and quantum foundations; the Kochen-Specker theorem
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Hyman Bass1932
Algebraic K-theory and mathematics education
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Melvin Hochster1943
Commutative algebra; the homological conjectures
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Barry Mazur1937
Number theory and arithmetic geometry; foundational to Fermat's proof
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
George Lusztig1946
Representation theory; Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Dorian Goldfeld1947
Number theory; the class number problem
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Benedict Gross1950
Number theory; the Gross-Zagier theorem
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Don Zagier1951
Number theory; modular forms and the Gross-Zagier theorem
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Karl Rubin1956
Number theory; elliptic curves and Iwasawa theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
David Harbater1952
Algebraic geometry; the inverse Galois problem
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Peter Sarnak1953
Number theory, analysis, and quantum chaos
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Daniel Goldston2014
Number theorist of small gaps between primes; Cole Prize (2014)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics (prize lists)
Henri Darmon1965
Number theory; elliptic curves and Stark-Heegner points
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Robert Guralnick1950
Finite group theory and representation theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics