The Alfréd Rényi Prize is awarded biannually by the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics

Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics

The Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics is the research institute in mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It was created in 1950 by Alfréd Rényi, who directed it until his death. Since its creation, the institute has been the center of mathematical research in Hungary. It received...

 of the Hungarian Academy of Science in honor of founder Alfréd Rényi

Alfréd Rényi

Alfréd Rényi was a Hungarian mathematician who made contributions in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory but mostly in probability theory.-Life:...

. By the current rules it is given to one or two fellows of the Institute in recognition of their outstanding performance 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...

 research of the previous five year period. Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest.-History:...

 and the director are not eligible. , it has been awarded 27 times since 1972.

Winners

• 1972 Gábor Halász
  Gábor Halász (mathematician)
  Gábor Halász is a Hungarian mathematician. He mainly works is number theory and mathematical analysis, especially in analytic number theory. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since 1985, he is professor at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.With Paul Turán, Halász proved...
  
  
• 1973 Endre Szemerédi
  Endre Szemerédi
  Endre Szemerédi is a Hungarian mathematician, working in the field of combinatorics and theoretical computer science. He is the State of New Jersey Professor of computer science at Rutgers University since 1986...
  
  
• 1974 József Szabados
• 1975 János Komlós
  János Komlós (mathematician)
  János Komlós is a Hungarian-American mathematician, working in probability theory and discrete mathematics. He is a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University since 1988. He graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University, then became a fellow at the Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy...
  
  
• 1976 Gyula O. H. Katona
  Gyula O. H. Katona
  Gyula O. H. Katona is a Hungarian mathematician known for his work in combinatorial set theory, and especially for the Kruskal–Katona theorem and his elegant proof of the Erdős–Ko–Rado theorem...
  
  
• 1977 András Sárközy
  András Sárközy
  András Sárközy is a Hungarian mathematician, working in analytic and combinatorial number theory, although his first works were in the fields of geometry and classical analysis. He has the largest number of papers co-authored with Paul Erdős...
  
  , Gábor Tusnády (*) (declined)
• 1984 József Beck
  József Beck
  József Beck is a Harold H. Martin Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University.His contributions to combinatorics include the partial colouring lemma and the Beck–Fiala theorem in discrepancy theory, the algorithmic version of the Lovász local lemma, the two extremes theorem in combinatorial...
  
  , Péter Vértesi
• 1985 Zoltán Füredi
  Zoltán Füredi
  Zoltán Füredi is a Hungarian mathematician, working in combinatorics, mainly in discrete geometry and extremal combinatorics. He was a student of Gyula O. H. Katona. He is a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences...
  
  , János Pintz
  János Pintz
  János Pintz is a Hungarian mathematician working in analytic number theory. He is a fellow of the Rényi Mathematical Institute and is also a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.-Mathematical results:...
  
  
• 1986 Emil Kiss, Imre Z. Ruzsa
  Imre Z. Ruzsa
  Imre Z. Ruzsa is a Hungarian mathematician specializing in number theory.Ruzsa participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad for Hungary, winning a silver medal in 1969, and two consecutive gold medals with perfect scores in 1970 and 1971. He graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University...
  
  
• 1987 Hajnal Andréka, János Körner
• 1988 Imre Bárány
  Imre Bárány
  Imre Bárány is a Hungarian mathematician, working in combinatorics and discrete geometry. He works at the Rényi Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and has a part-time job at the University College London....
  
  , József Fritz (*)
• 1989 Péter Major (*), István Berkes
• 1990 Ánh Pham Ngoc
• 1991 Antal Balog, Ervin Győri
• 1992 János Pach
  János Pach
  János Pach is a mathematician and computer scientist working in the fields of combinatorics and discrete and computational geometry...
  
  
• 1993 László Pyber
  László Pyber
  László Pyber is a Hungarian mathematician.He works in combinatorics and group theory. He is a researcher at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest.He received the title the Doctor of Science from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences...
  
  , Lajos Soukup
• 1994 Nándor Simányi, Gábor Simonyi
• 1996 Endre Makai, Katalin Marton
• 1997 Gábor Fejes Tóth
• 1998 András Kroó
• 1999 Gábor Tardos
  Gábor Tardos
  Gábor Tardos is a Hungarian mathematician, currently a professor and Canada Research Chair at Simon Fraser University. He works mainly in combinatorics and computer science...
  
  
• 2000 Péter Pál Pálfy (*)
• 2001 Mátyás Domokos
• 2002 László Márki
• 2005 András Stipsicz
• 2007 András Némethi
• 2009 Gábor Elek

(*) Links to a Hungarian Wikipedia article.