The George David Birkhoff Prize in applied mathematics

Applied mathematics

Applied mathematics is a branch of mathematics that concerns itself with mathematical methods that are typically used in science, engineering, business, and industry. Thus, "applied mathematics" is a mathematical science with specialized knowledge...

 is awarded – jointly by the American Mathematical Society

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...

 (AMS) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics was founded by a small group of mathematicians from academia and industry who met in Philadelphia in 1951 to start an organization whose members would meet periodically to exchange ideas about the uses of mathematics in industry. This meeting led...

 (SIAM) – in honour of George David Birkhoff

George David Birkhoff

-External links:* − from National Academies Press, by Oswald Veblen....

 (1884–1944). It is currently awarded every three years for an outstanding contribution to: "applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense". The recipient of the prize has to be a member of one of the awarding societies, as well as a resident of the United States of America, Canada

Canada

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 or Mexico

Mexico

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. The prize was established in 1967 and currently (2010) amounts to US$5,000.

Recipients

Thirteenth award,	2009	:	Joel Smoller
Twelfth award,	2006	:	Cathleen Synge Morawetz Cathleen Synge Morawetz Cathleen Synge Morawetz is a mathematician. Morawetz's research was mainly in the study of the partial differential equations governing fluid flow, particularly those of mixed type occurring in transonic flow...
Eleventh award,	2003	:	John Mather and Charles S. Peskin Charles S. Peskin Charles S. Peskin is a professor of mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. He is a MacArthur Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Science....
Tenth award,	1998	:	Paul H. Rabinowitz
Ninth award,	1994	:	Ivo Babuška Ivo Babuška Ivo M. Babuška is a Czech-American mathematician, noted for his studies of the finite element method and the proof of the Babuška-Lax-Milgram theorem in partial differential equations. One of the celebrated result in the finite elements is the so-called Babuska-Brezzi condition, which provides...  and S. R. S. Varadhan
Eighth award,	1988	:	Elliott H. Lieb Elliott H. Lieb Elliott H. Lieb is an eminent American mathematical physicist and professor of mathematics and physics at Princeton University who specializes in statistical mechanics, condensed matter theory, and functional analysis....
Seventh award,	1983	:	Paul R. Garabedian
Sixth award,	1978	:	Clifford A. Truesdell
Fifth award,	1978	:	Mark Kac Mark Kac Mark Kac was a Polish mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, with the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry. Kac completed his Ph.D...
Fourth award,	1978	:	Garrett Birkhoff Garrett Birkhoff Garrett Birkhoff was an American mathematician. He is best known for his work in lattice theory.The mathematician George Birkhoff was his father....
Third award,	1973	:	James B. Serrin
Second award,	1973	:	Fritz John Fritz John Fritz John was a German-born mathematician specialising in partial differential equations and ill-posed problems. His early work was on the Radon transform and he is remembered for John's equation.-Biography:...
First award,	1968	:	Jürgen K. Moser