List of winners of each year, their citizenship, institutions they attended and the justified citation.
Year Laureate(s) Citizenship Institution Citation Ref
2003 Serre, Jean-PierreJean-Pierre Serre French Collège de France "for playing a key role in shaping the modern form of many parts of mathematics, including topology, algebraic geometry and number theory" [13]
2004 Atiyah, MichaelMichael Atiyah
Singer, IsadoreIsadore Singer
British
American
University of Edinburgh
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"for their discovery and proof of the index theorem, bringing together topology, geometry and analysis, and their outstanding role in building new bridges between mathematics and theoretical physics" [14]
2005 Lax, PeterPeter Lax American Courant Institute "for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions" [15]
2006 Carleson, LennartLennart Carleson Swedish[16] Royal Institute of Technology "for his profound and seminal contributions to harmonic analysis and the theory of smooth dynamical systems" [17]
2007 Varadhan, S. R. SrinivasaS. R. Srinivasa Varadhan Indian/American [18] Courant Institute "for his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviation" [19]
2008 Thompson, John G.John G. Thompson
Tits, JacquesJacques Tits
American
Belgian/French[20]
University of Florida
Collège de France
"for their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory" [21]
2009 Gromov, MikhailMikhail Gromov Russian/French[22] Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
Courant Institute
"for his revolutionary contributions to geometry" [23]
2010 Tate, John T.John T. Tate American University of Texas at Austin "for his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers" [24]
2011 Milnor, JohnJohn Milnor American[25] Stony Brook University "for pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry, and algebra" [26]
2012 Szemerédi, EndreEndre Szemerédi Hungarian/American[27] Alfréd Rényi Institute
and Rutgers University
"for his fundamental contributions to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, and in recognition of the profound and lasting impact of these contributions on additive number theory and ergodic theory" [28]
2013 Deligne, PierrePierre Deligne Belgian Institute for Advanced Study "for seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact on number theory, representation theory, and related fields" [29]
2014 Sinai, Yakov G.Yakov G. Sinai Russian/American Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
and Princeton University
"for his fundamental contributions to dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and mathematical physics" [30]