Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics
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The Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics is a $5000 prize awarded every three years to for an outstanding contribution to "applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense." It was endowed in 1967 in honor of Norbert Wiener
by MIT's mathematics
department and is provided jointly by the American Mathematical Society
and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
.
Norbert Wiener
Norbert 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...
by MIT's 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...
department and is provided 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...
and 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...
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Winners
- 1970: Richard E. Bellman
- 1975: Peter D. LaxPeter LaxPeter David Lax is a mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. He has made important contributions to integrable systems, fluid dynamics and shock waves, solitonic physics, hyperbolic conservation laws, and mathematical and scientific computing, among other fields...
- 1980: Tosio KatoTosio Katowas a Japanese mathematician who worked with partial differential equations, mathematical physics and functional analysis.Kato studied physics and received his undergraduate degree in 1941 at the Imperial University of Tokyo. After disruption of the Second World War, he received his doctorate in...
and Gerald B. WhithamGerald B. WhithamGerald Beresford Whitham is an American applied mathematician and the Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied Mathematics of Applied & Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1953 under the direction of Sir... - 1985: Clifford S. Gardner
- 1990: Michael AizenmanMichael AizenmanMichael Aizenman is a mathematician and a physicist at Princeton University working in the fields of mathematical physics, statistical mechanics, functional analysis and probability theory....
and Jerrold E. MarsdenJerrold E. MarsdenJerrold Eldon Marsden , was an applied mathematician. He was the Carl F. Braun Professor of Engineering and Control & Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology. Marsden is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.-Career:Marsden earned his B.Sc... - 1995: Hermann FlaschkaHermann FlaschkaHerman Flaschka is a well-known Austrian born mathematical physicist and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Arizona, known for his important contributions in completely integrable systems .- Childhood :...
and Ciprian FoiasCiprian FoiasCiprian Ilie Foias is a Romanian-American mathematician. He was awarded the Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics in 1995, for his contributions in operator theory.... - 2000: Alexandre J. ChorinAlexandre ChorinAlexandre J. Chorin is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who works in applied mathematics. He is known for his contributions to the field of Computational fluid dynamics....
and Arthur WinfreeArthur WinfreeArthur Taylor Winfree was a theoretical biologist at the University of Arizona. He was born in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States.... - 2004: James A. Sethian
- 2007: Craig TracyCraig TracyCraig Arnold Tracy is an American mathematician, known for his contributions to mathematical physics and probability theory.Born in United Kingdom, he moved as infant to Missouri where he grew up and...
and Harold WidomHarold WidomHarold Widom is an American mathematician well known for his contributions to operator theory and random matrices. He was appointed to the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1968 and became professor emeritus in 1994. ... - 2010: David DonohoDavid DonohoDavid Leigh Donoho, born on March 5, 1957 in Los Angeles, is a professor of statistics at Stanford University, where he is also the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the Humanities and Sciences...