TheWolf Prize in Mathematics is awarded almost annually[a] by theWolf Foundation inIsrael. It is one of the sixWolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are inAgriculture,Chemistry,Medicine,Physics andArts. The Wolf Prize includes a monetary award of $100,000.[1]
According to a reputation survey conducted in 2013 and 2014, the Wolf Prize in Mathematics is the third most prestigious international academic award in mathematics, after theAbel Prize and theFields Medal.[2][3]
| Year | Name | Nationality | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Israel Gelfand |  Soviet Union | for his work infunctional analysis,group representation, and for his seminal contributions to many areas of mathematics and its applications. |
| Carl L. Siegel |  Germany | for his contributions to thetheory of numbers, theory ofseveral complex variables, andcelestial mechanics. | |
| 1979 | Jean Leray |  France | for pioneering work on the development and application oftopological methods to the study ofdifferential equations. |
| André Weil | France | for his inspired introduction ofalgebraic-geometric methods to the theory of numbers. | |
| 1980 | Henri Cartan | France | for pioneering work inalgebraic topology,complex variables,homological algebra and inspired leadership of a generation of mathematicians. |
| Andrey Kolmogorov | Soviet Union | for deep and original discoveries inFourier analysis,probability theory,ergodic theory anddynamical systems. | |
| 1981 | Lars Ahlfors |  Finland | for seminal discoveries and the creation of powerful new methods ingeometric function theory. |
| Oscar Zariski |  United States | creator of the modern approach toalgebraic geometry, by its fusion withcommutative algebra. | |
| 1982 | Hassler Whitney | United States | for his fundamental work inalgebraic topology,differential geometry anddifferential topology. |
| Mark Krein | Soviet Union | for his fundamental contributions tofunctional analysis and its applications. | |
| 1983/84 | Shiing-Shen Chern |  China United States | for outstanding contributions to globaldifferential geometry, which have profoundly influenced all mathematics. |
| Paul Erdős |  Hungary | for his numerous contributions tonumber theory,combinatorics,probability,set theory andmathematical analysis, and for personally stimulating mathematicians the world over. | |
| 1984/85 | Kunihiko Kodaira |  Japan | for his outstanding contributions to the study ofcomplex manifolds andalgebraic varieties. |
| Hans Lewy | United States | for initiating many, now classic and essential, developments inpartial differential equations. | |
| 1986 | Samuel Eilenberg |  Poland United States | for his fundamental work inalgebraic topology andhomological algebra. |
| Atle Selberg |  Norway | for his profound and original work onnumber theory and ondiscrete groups andautomorphic forms. | |
| 1987 | Kiyoshi Itō | Japan | for his fundamental contributions to pure and appliedprobability theory, especially the creation of thestochastic differential and integral calculus. |
| Peter Lax | Hungary United States | for his outstanding contributions to many areas ofanalysis andapplied mathematics. | |
| 1988 | Friedrich Hirzebruch | Germany | for outstanding work combiningtopology,algebraic geometry anddifferential geometry, andalgebraic number theory; and for his stimulation of mathematical cooperation and research. |
| Lars Hörmander |  Sweden | for fundamental work in modern analysis, in particular, the application ofpseudo-differential operators andFourier integral operators to linearpartial differential equations. | |
| 1989 | Alberto Calderón |  Argentina | for his groundbreaking work onsingular integral operators and their application to important problems inpartial differential equations. |
| John Milnor | United States | for ingenious and highly original discoveries ingeometry, which have opened important new vistas intopology from thealgebraic,combinatorial, anddifferentiable viewpoint. | |
| 1990 | Ennio De Giorgi |  Italy | for his innovating ideas and fundamental achievements inpartial differential equations andcalculus of variations. |
| Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro | Soviet Union Israel | for his fundamental contributions in the fields ofhomogeneouscomplex domains,discrete groups,representation theory andautomorphic forms. | |
| 1991 | No award | ||
| 1992 | Lennart Carleson | Sweden | for his fundamental contributions toFourier analysis,complex analysis,quasi-conformal mappings anddynamical systems. |
| John G. Thompson | United States | for his profound contributions to all aspects offinite group theory and connections with other branches of mathematics. | |
| 1993 | Mikhail Gromov |  Russia France | for his revolutionary contributions to globalRiemannian andsymplectic geometry,algebraic topology,geometric group theory and the theory ofpartial differential equations; |
| Jacques Tits |  Belgium France | for his pioneering and fundamental contributions to the theory of the structure of algebraic and other classes of groups and in particular for the theory ofbuildings. | |
| 1994/95 | Jürgen Moser |  Switzerland United States | for his fundamental work on stability inHamiltonian mechanics and his profound and influential contributions to nonlineardifferential equations. |
| 1995/96 | Robert Langlands |  Canada | for his path-blazing work and extraordinary insight in the fields ofnumber theory,automorphic forms andgroup representation. |
| Andrew Wiles |  United Kingdom | for spectacular contributions tonumber theory and related fields, major advances on fundamental conjectures, and for settlingFermat's Last Theorem. | |
| 1996/97 | Joseph B. Keller | United States | for his profound and innovative contributions, in particular toelectromagnetic,optical, andacousticwave propagation and tofluid,solid,quantum andstatistical mechanics. |
| Yakov G. Sinai | Russia United States | for his fundamental contributions to mathematically rigorous methods instatistical mechanics and theergodic theory ofdynamical systems and their applications inphysics. | |
| 1998 | No award | ||
| 1999 | László Lovász | Hungary United States | for his outstanding contributions tocombinatorics, theoreticalcomputer science andcombinatorial optimization. |
| Elias M. Stein | United States | for his contributions to classical andEuclidean Fourier analysis and for his exceptional impact on a new generation of analysts through his eloquent teaching and writing. | |
| 2000 | Raoul Bott | Hungary United States | for his deep discoveries intopology anddifferential geometry and their applications toLie groups,differential operators andmathematical physics. |
| Jean-Pierre Serre | France | for his many fundamental contributions totopology,algebraic geometry,algebra, andnumber theory and for his inspirational lectures and writing. | |
| 2001 | Vladimir Arnold | Russia | for his deep and influential work in a multitude of areas of mathematics, includingdynamical systems,differential equations, andsingularity theory. |
| Saharon Shelah | Israel | for his many fundamental contributions tomathematical logic andset theory, and their applications within other parts of mathematics. | |
| 2002/03 | Mikio Sato | Japan | for his creation ofalgebraic analysis, includinghyperfunction theory andmicrofunction theory,holonomic quantum field theory, and a unified theory ofsoliton equations. |
| John Tate | United States | for his creation of fundamental concepts inalgebraic number theory. | |
| 2004 | No award | ||
| 2005 | Gregory Margulis | Russia United States | for his monumental contributions toalgebra, in particular to the theory oflattices in semi-simpleLie groups, and striking applications of this toergodic theory,representation theory,number theory,combinatorics, andmeasure theory. |
| Sergei Novikov | Russia | for his fundamental and pioneering contributions toalgebraic anddifferential topology, and tomathematical physics, notably the introduction ofalgebraic-geometric methods. | |
| 2006/07 | Stephen Smale | United States | for his groundbreaking contributions that have played a fundamental role in shapingdifferential topology,dynamical systems,mathematical economics, and other subjects in mathematics. |
| Hillel Furstenberg | United States Israel | for his profound contributions toergodic theory,probability,topological dynamics, analysis onsymmetric spaces andhomogeneous flows. | |
| 2008 | Pierre Deligne | Belgium | for his work onmixed Hodge theory; theWeil conjectures; theRiemann-Hilbert correspondence; and for his contributions toarithmetic. |
| Phillip A. Griffiths | United States | for his work on variations ofHodge structures; the theory of periods ofabelian integrals; and for his contributions tocomplex differential geometry. | |
| David B. Mumford | United States | for his work onalgebraic surfaces; ongeometric invariant theory; and for laying the foundations of the modernalgebraic theory of moduli of curves andtheta functions. | |
| 2009 | No award | ||
| 2010 | Shing-Tung Yau | United States | for his work ingeometric analysis that has had a profound and dramatic impact on many areas of geometry and physics. |
| Dennis P. Sullivan | United States | for his innovative contributions toalgebraic topology andconformal dynamics. | |
| 2011 | No award | ||
| 2012 | Michael Aschbacher | United States | for his work on the theory offinite groups. |
| Luis Caffarelli | Argentina | for his work onpartial differential equations. | |
| 2013 | George D. Mostow | United States | for his fundamental and pioneering contribution to geometry and Lie group theory. |
| Michael Artin | United States | for his fundamental contributions to algebraic geometry, both in commutative and noncommutative. | |
| 2014 | Peter Sarnak |  South Africa United States | for his deep contributions in analysis, number theory, geometry, and combinatorics. |
| 2015 | James G. Arthur | Canada | for his monumental work on thetrace formula and his fundamental contributions to the theory ofautomorphic representations of reductive groups. |
| 2016 | No award | ||
| 2017 | Richard Schoen | United States | for his contributions to geometric analysis and the understanding of the interconnectedness of partial differential equations and differential geometry. |
| Charles Fefferman | United States | for his contributions in a number of mathematical areas including complex multivariate analysis, partial differential equations and sub-elliptical problems. | |
| 2018 | Alexander Beilinson | Russia United States | for their work that has made significant progress at the interface of geometry and mathematical physics. |
| Vladimir Drinfeld |  Ukraine United States | ||
| 2019 | Jean-Francois Le Gall | France | for his several deep and elegant contributions to the theory ofstochastic processes. |
| Gregory Lawler | United States | for his comprehensive and pioneering research onerased loops and random walks.[4] | |
| 2020 | Simon K. Donaldson | United Kingdom | for their contributions to differential geometry and topology.[5] |
| Yakov Eliashberg | United States | ||
| 2021 | No award | ||
| 2022 | George Lusztig |  Romania United States Hungary | for his groundbreaking contributions to representation theory and related areas.[6] |
| 2023 | Ingrid Daubechies | Belgium United States | for her work inwavelet theory and applied harmonic analysis.[7] |
| 2024 | Adi Shamir | Israel | for his fundamental contributions to Mathematical Cryptography.[8] |
| Noga Alon | Israel | for his fundamental contributions to Combinatorics and Theoretical Computer Science.[9] | |
| 2025 | No award | ||
Below is a chart of all laureates per country (updated to 2024 laureates). Some laureates are counted more than once if they have multiple citizenships.
| Country | Number of laureates |
|---|---|
 United States | 34 |
| Soviet Union /Russia | 10 |
| France | 7 |
| Israel | 5 |
| Hungary | 5 |
| Japan | 3 |
| Belgium | 3 |
| Germany | 2 |
| United Kingdom | 2 |
| Canada | 2 |
| Argentina | 2 |
| Sweden | 2 |
| Ukraine | 2 |
| South Africa | 1 |
| Poland | 1 |
| Italy | 1 |
| China | 1 |
| Norway | 1 |
| Finland | 1 |
| Romania | 1 |
