Nevanlinna Prize

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The Rolf Nevanlinna Prize is awarded once every 4 years at the International Congress of Mathematicians, 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 IMU and named to honour the Finnish mathematician Rolf Nevanlinna who had died a year earlier. The award consists of a gold medal and cash prize.

[edit] Laureates

• 2006 - Jon Kleinberg
• 2002 - Madhu Sudan
• 1998 - Peter Shor
• 1994 - Avi Wigderson
• 1990 - Alexander Razborov
• 1986 - Leslie Valiant
• 1982 - Robert Tarjan

[edit] See also

• Abel Prize
• Fields Medal
• Gödel Prize
• Schock Prize
• Wolf Prize
• List of prizes

[edit] External links

• Rolf Nevanlinna Prizes - Official site

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