Wolf Prize 2005: Winners

Recipients

1. Grigory Margulis

   Math

   for his monumental contributions to algebra, in particular to the theory of lattices in semi-simple Lie groups, and striking applications of this to ergodic theory, representation theory, number theory, combinatorics and measure theory.

2. Sergei Novikov

   Math

   for his fundamental and pioneering contributions to algebraic and differential topology, and to mathematical physics, notably the introduction of algebraic-geometric methods.