Bôcher Memorial Prize
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The Bôcher Memorial Prize was founded by the American Mathematical Society
in 1923 in memory of Maxime Bôcher
with an initial endowment of $1,450 (contributed by members of that society). It is awarded every five years for a notable research memoir in analysis
that has appeared during the past six years in a recognized North American journal or was authored by a member of the Society. This provision, introduced in 1971 and modified in 1993, is a liberalization of the terms of the award. The current award is $5,000.
American Mathematical Society
The American Mathematical Society is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, which it does with various publications and conferences as well as annual monetary awards and prizes to mathematicians.The society is one of the...
in 1923 in memory of Maxime Bôcher
Maxime Bôcher
Maxime Bôcher was an American mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra. He also wrote elementary texts such as Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry. Bôcher's theorem, Bôcher's equation, and the Bôcher Memorial Prize are named after him.-Life:Bôcher...
with an initial endowment of $1,450 (contributed by members of that society). It is awarded every five years for a notable research memoir in analysis
Mathematical analysis
Mathematical analysis, which mathematicians refer to simply as analysis, has its beginnings in the rigorous formulation of infinitesimal calculus. It is a branch of pure mathematics that includes the theories of differentiation, integration and measure, limits, infinite series, and analytic functions...
that has appeared during the past six years in a recognized North American journal or was authored by a member of the Society. This provision, introduced in 1971 and modified in 1993, is a liberalization of the terms of the award. The current award is $5,000.
Past winners
- 1923 George David BirkhoffGeorge David Birkhoff-External links:* − from National Academies Press, by Oswald Veblen....
- 1924 Eric Temple BellEric Temple BellEric Temple Bell , was a mathematician and science fiction author born in Scotland who lived in the U.S. for most of his life...
, Solomon LefschetzSolomon LefschetzSolomon Lefschetz was an American mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential equations.-Life:... - 1928 James W. Alexander
- 1933 Marston MorseMarston MorseHarold Calvin Marston Morse was an American mathematician best known for his work on the calculus of variations in the large, a subject where he introduced the technique of differential topology now known as Morse theory...
, Norbert WienerNorbert WienerNorbert Wiener was an American mathematician.A famous child prodigy, Wiener later became an early researcher in stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems.Wiener is regarded as the originator of cybernetics, a... - 1938 John von NeumannJohn von NeumannJohn von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath who made major contributions to a vast number of fields, including set theory, functional analysis, quantum mechanics, ergodic theory, geometry, fluid dynamics, economics and game theory, computer science, numerical analysis,...
- 1943 Jesse DouglasJesse DouglasJesse Douglas was an American mathematician. He was born in New York and attended Columbia College of Columbia University from 1920–1924. Douglas was one of two winners of the first Fields Medals, awarded in 1936. He was honored for solving, in 1930, the problem of Plateau, which asks whether a...
- 1948 Albert Schaeffer, Donald Spencer
- 1953 Norman LevinsonNorman LevinsonNorman Levinson was an American mathematician. Some of his major contributions were in the study of Fourier transforms, complex analysis, non-linear differential equations, number theory, and signal processing. He worked closely with Norbert Wiener in his early career...
- 1959 Louis NirenbergLouis NirenbergLouis Nirenberg is a Canadian mathematician, and one of the outstanding analysts of the twentieth century. He has made fundamental contributions to linear and nonlinear partial differential equations and their application to complex analysis and geometry.He was born in Hamilton, Ontario and...
- 1964 Paul CohenPaul Cohen (mathematician)Paul Joseph Cohen was an American mathematician best known for his proof of the independence of the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, the most widely accepted axiomatization of set theory.-Early years:Cohen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, into a...
- 1969 Isadore SingerIsadore SingerIsadore Manuel Singer is an Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
- 1974 Donald Samuel OrnsteinDonald Samuel OrnsteinDonald Samuel Ornstein is an American mathematician working in the area of ergodic theory. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1957 under the guidance of Irving Kaplansky. During his career at Stanford University he supervised the Ph. D...
- 1979 Alberto CalderónAlberto CalderónAlberto Pedro Calderón was an Argentine mathematician best known for his work on the theory of partial differential equations and singular integral operators, and widely considered as one of the 20th century's most important mathematicians...
- 1984 Luis CaffarelliLuis CaffarelliLuis A. Caffarelli is an Argentinian mathematician and leader in the field of partial differential equations and their applications....
- 1984 Richard Melrose
- 1989 Richard SchoenRichard SchoenRichard Melvin Schoen is an American mathematician. Born in Fort Recovery, Ohio, he received his PhD in 1977 from Stanford University where he is currently the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Humanities and Sciences...
- 1994 Leon SimonLeon SimonLeon Melvyn Simon is a Bôcher Prize-winning mathematician. He is currently Professor in the Mathematics Department at Stanford University.-Academic career:...
- 1999 Demetrios ChristodoulouDemetrios ChristodoulouDemetrios Christodoulou is a Greek mathematician and physicist, who first became well known for his proof, together with Sergiu Klainerman, of the nonlinear stability of the Minkowski spacetime...
, Sergiu KlainermanSergiu KlainermanSergiu Klainerman is a mathematician known for his contributions to the study of hyperbolic differential equations and general relativity. He is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University, a position he held since 1987. From 1980 to 1987 he was a faculty member at New...
, Thomas WolffThomas WolffThomas Wolff was a noted mathematician, working primarily in the fields of harmonic analysis, complex analysis, and partial differential equations. As an undergraduate at Harvard University he regularly played poker with his classmate Bill Gates... - 2002 Daniel TătaruDaniel TătaruDaniel Ioan Tătaru is a Romanian mathematician at University of California, Berkeley. He won the 2002 Bôcher Memorial Prize for his research on partial differential equations....
, Terence TaoTerence TaoTerence Chi-Shen Tao FRS is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory...
, Lin FanghuaLin FanghuaLin Fanghua , also sometimes written as Fang-Hua Lin, born 1959, is a Chinese-born American mathematician. Currently, he is the Silver Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences... - 2005 Frank Merle
- 2008 Alberto BressanAlberto BressanAlberto Bressan is an Italian mathematician at Penn State University. His primary field of research is mathematical analysis including hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, impulsive control of Lagrangian systems, and non-cooperative differential games.He obtained his PhD in mathematics from...
, Charles FeffermanCharles FeffermanCharles Louis Fefferman is an American mathematician at Princeton University. His primary field of research is mathematical analysis....
, Carlos Kenig - 2011 Assaf Naor, Gunther UhlmannGunther UhlmannGunther Alberto Uhlmann Arancibia is a mathematician whose research focuses on inverse problems and imaging, microlocal analysis and partial differential equations....