The CRM-Fields prize was given annually by the Centre de recherches mathématiques

Centre de Recherches Mathématiques

The Centre de Recherches Mathématiques is the first mathematical research institute in Canada. It was founded in 1969, and was recognized as a national research center for the mathematical sciences in 1984....

 and the Fields Institute

Fields Institute

The Fields Institute is an international centre for research in mathematical sciences at the University of Toronto. The institute is named for University of Toronto mathematician John Charles Fields, founder of the Fields Medal...

 from 1994 to 2005. From 2006
the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) joined the other two institutes awarding the prize, making the CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize.

The prize is given for exceptional research in mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

. It is one of the most prestigious prizes in mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

 in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

.

The research must have been done principally in Canada, or in affiliation with a Canadian university.

Winners

• 1995 - H.S.M. Coxeter
• 1996 - George A. Elliott
• 1997 - James Arthur
  James Arthur (mathematician)
  James Greig Arthur , is a Canadian mathematician and former President of the American Mathematical Society. He is currently in the Mathematics Departmentof the University of Toronto....
  
  
• 1998 - Robert V. Moody
• 1999 - Stephen A. Cook
  Stephen Cook
  Stephen Arthur Cook is a renowned American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who has made major contributions to the fields of complexity theory and proof complexity...
  
  
• 2000 - Israel Michael Sigal
• 2001 - William T. Tutte
• 2002 - John B. Friedlander
• 2003 - John McKay
  John McKay (mathematician)
  John McKay is a dual British/Canadian citizen, a mathematician at Concordia University, known for his discovery of monstrous moonshine, his joint construction of some sporadic simple groups, for the McKay conjecture in representation theory, and for the McKay correspondence relating certain...
  
   and Edwin Perkins
• 2004 - Donald Dawson
• 2005 - David Boyd
• 2006 - Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann
  Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann
  Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann FRSC is a Polish Canadian mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of Alberta, and the holder of the Canada Research Chair in Geometric Analysis....
  
  
• 2007 - Joel S. Feldman
• 2008 - Allan Borodin
  Allan Borodin
  Allan Bertram Borodin is a University of Toronto professor whose research is in computational complexity theory and algorithms.He has co-authored papers with some of the best researchers in computer science including his longtime friend and colleague Turing Award winner Stephen Cook...
  
  
• 2009 - Martin T. Barlow
  Martin T. Barlow
  Martin Thomas Barlow FRS FRSC is a British mathematician who is professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia in Canada since 1992.-History:...
  
  
• 2010 - Gordon Slade