Crafoord Prize for Mathematics: Winners by Year

Award years

• 2024

  • Claire Voisin

    for outstanding contributions to complex and algebraic geometry, including Hodge theory, algebraic cycles, and hyperkähler geometry

• 2020

  • Enrico Bombieri

    for outstanding and influential contributions in all the major areas of mathematics, particularly number theory, analysis and algebraic geometry

• 2016

  • Yakov Eliashberg

    for the development of contact and symplectic topology and groundbreaking discoveries of rigidity and flexibility phenomena

• 2012

  • Jean Bourgain, Terence Tao

    for their brilliant and groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, ergodic theory, number theory, combinatorics, functional analysis and theoretical computer science

• 2008

  • Maxim Kontsevich, Edward Witten

    for their important contributions to mathematics inspired by modern theoretical physics

• 2001

  • Alain Connes

    for his penetrating work on the theory of operator algebras and for having been a founder of non-commutative geometry

• 1994

  • Simon Donaldson

    for his fundamental investigations in four-dimensional geometry through application of instantos in particular his new discovery of new differential invariants

  • Shing-Tung Yau

    for his development of non-linear techniques in differential geometry leading the solution of several outstanding problems

• 1988

  • Pierre Deligne, Alexander Grothendieck

    for their fundamental research in algebraic geometry

• 1982

  • Vladimir Arnold, Louis Nirenberg

    for their outstanding achievements in the theory of non-linear differential equations