The Ostrowski Prize is a mathematics award given every other year by an international jury from the universities of Basel, Jerusalem, Waterloo and the academies of Denmark and the Netherlands. Alexander Ostrowski, a longtime professor at the University of Basel, left his estate to the foundation in order to establish a prize for outstanding achievements in pure mathematics and the foundations of numerical mathematics. It currently carries a monetary award of 100,000 Swiss francs.
Its recipients are:
- 1989: Louis de Branges (France / USA)
- 1991: Jean Bourgain (Belgium)
- 1993: Miklós Laczkovich (Hungary) and Marina Ratner (Russia / USA)
- 1995: Andrew J. Wiles (UK)
- 1997: Yuri V. Nesterenko (Russia) and Gilles I. Pisier (France)
- 1999: Alexander A. Beilinson (Russia / USA) and Helmut H. Hofer (Switzerland / USA)
- 2001: Henryk Iwaniec (Poland / USA) and Peter Sarnak (South Africa / USA) and Richard L. Taylor (UK / USA)
- 2003: Paul Seymour (UK)
- 2005: Ben Green (UK) and Terence Tao (Australia / USA)
- 2007: Oded Schramm (Israel / USA)
- 2009: Sorin Popa (Romania / USA)
- 2011: Ib Madsen (Denmark), David Preiss (UK) and Kannan Soundararajan (India / USA)
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