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The Rolf Nevanlinna Prize is awarded once every 4 years at the International Congress of Mathematicians
International Congress of Mathematicians

The International Congress of Mathematicians is the largest congress in the mathematics community. It is held once every four years under the auspices of the International Mathematical Union ....
, for outstanding contributions in Mathematical Aspects of Information Sciences including:

  1. All mathematical aspects of computer science, including complexity theory, logic of programming languages, analysis of algorithms, cryptography, computer vision, pattern recognition, information processing and modelling of intelligence.
  2. Scientific computing and numerical analysis.






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    The Rolf Nevanlinna Prize is awarded once every 4 years at the International Congress of Mathematicians
    International Congress of Mathematicians

    The International Congress of Mathematicians is the largest congress in the mathematics community. It is held once every four years under the auspices of the International Mathematical Union ....
    , for outstanding contributions in Mathematical Aspects of Information Sciences including:

    1. All mathematical aspects of computer science, including complexity theory, logic of programming languages, analysis of algorithms, cryptography, computer vision, pattern recognition, information processing and modelling of intelligence.
    2. Scientific computing and numerical analysis. Computational aspects of optimization and control theory. Computer algebra.


    The prize was established in 1981 by the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union
    International Mathematical Union

    The International Mathematical Union is an international non-governmental organization devoted to international cooperation in the field of mathematics....
     IMU and named to honour the Finnish
    Finland

    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
     mathematician Rolf Nevanlinna
    Rolf Nevanlinna

    Rolf Herman Nevanlinna is one of the most famous Finland mathematicians. He was particularly appreciated for his work in complex analysis . Apart from mathematics, Nevanlinna took great interest in culture and politics....
     who had died a year earlier. The award consists of a gold medal and cash prize. Like the Fields Medal
    Fields Medal

    The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of Mathematicians of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years....
     the prize is targeted at younger mathematicians, and only those younger than 40 on January 1 of the award year are eligible.

    The medal features a profile of Nevanlinna, the text "Rolf Nevanlinna Prize", and very small characters "RH 83" on its obverse. RH refers to Raimo Heino
    Raimo Heino

    Raimo Heino was the designer of the Finnish euro coins. All designs feature the 12 stars of the EU and the year of imprint on the front side and a national design on the other....
    , the medal's designer, and 83 to the year of first minting. On the reverse, two figures related to the University of Helsinki
    University of Helsinki

    The University of Helsinki is a university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but founded in the city of Turku 1640 as The Royal Academy of Turku....
    , the prize sponsor, are engraved. The rim bears the name of the prizewinner.

    Laureates

    Year Laureate Nationality
    1982 Robert Tarjan
    Robert Tarjan

    Robert Endre Tarjan is a renowned United States computer scientist. He is the discoverer of several important graph theory algorithms, including Tarjan's off-line least common ancestors algorithm, and co-inventor of both splay trees and Fibonacci heaps....
    1986 Leslie Valiant
    Leslie Valiant

    File:Leslie Valiant.jpgLeslie Gabriel Valiant is a Great Britain computer scientist and computational theorist.He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, Imperial College London, and University of Warwick where he received his Ph.D....
    1990 Alexander Razborov
    Alexander Razborov

    Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Razborov , sometimes known as Sasha Razborov, is a Russian mathematician and computational theorist who won the Nevanlinna Prize in 1990 for intruducting "approximation method" in proving Boolean circuit lower bounds of some essential algorithmic problems, and the G?del Prize with Steven Rudich in 2007 for their...
    1994 Avi Wigderson
    Avi Wigderson

    Avi Wigderson is an Israelis mathematician and computer scientist who received the Nevanlinna Prize in 1994 for his work on computational complexity....
    1998 Peter Shor
    Peter Shor

    Peter Williston Shor is an United States theoretical computer science most famous for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising a quantum algorithm for Integer factorization exponentially faster than the best currently-known algorithm running on a classical computer ....
    2002 Madhu Sudan
    Madhu Sudan

    Madhu Sudan is an Indian computer scientist, professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory....
    2006 Jon Kleinberg
    Jon Kleinberg

    Jon Michael Kleinberg is an United States computer science and Tisch University Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University....


    See also

    • Abel Prize
      Abel Prize

      The Abel Prize is an international prize presented annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. The prize is named after Norwegian people mathematician Niels Henrik Abel ....
    • Fields Medal
      Fields Medal

      The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of Mathematicians of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years....
    • Gödel Prize
      Gödel Prize

      The G?del Prize is a prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science, named after Kurt G?del and awarded jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory ....
    • Schock Prize
      Schock prize

      The Rolf Schock Prizes were established and endowed by bequeath of philosopher and artist Rolf Schock . The prizes were first awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1993 and have been awarded every two years since....
    • Wolf Prize
      Wolf Prize

      The 'Wolf Prize' is an international award, has been presented annually since 1978 to living science and artists for "achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples ......
    • List of prizes


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