Sylvester Medal

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The Sylvester Medal is a prestigious mathematics award presented by the Royal Society in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field.

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Label Occurrences
Sylvester Medal canonical 25
Royal Society Sylvester Medal 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Royal Society award
academic award
mathematics award
associatedWith James Joseph Sylvester Chair of Mathematics (historical association)
awardedFor outstanding contributions to mathematics
awardStatus active
country United Kingdom
discipline applied mathematics
pure mathematics
eligibility international recipients
mathematicians
field mathematics
firstAwarded 1901
follows Copley Medal
surface form: Copley Medal (as a Royal Society prize hierarchy context)
hasAwardingBody Royal Society
surface form: Royal Society of London
hasCategory Awards established in 1901
Mathematics awards
Royal Society medals
hasFrequency biennial
hasMedium medal
hasNotableRecipient Andrew Wiles
Cédric Villani
Enrico Bombieri
G. H. Hardy
John Edensor Littlewood
surface form: J. E. Littlewood

John Milnor
Maryam Mirzakhani
Michael Atiyah
Peter Whittle
Terence Tao
hasOfficialWebsite https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/sylvester-medal/
hasScope international
hasType scientific medal
inception 1901
isOneOf major international mathematics prizes
isPartOf Royal Society medals and awards
isPrestigious true
languageOfName English
location London, England
surface form: London
namedAfter James Joseph Sylvester
namedAfterNationality British
namedAfterOccupation mathematician
namedFor James Joseph Sylvester
presentedBy Royal Society
recognizes research excellence in mathematics
selectionMethod election by Royal Society
sponsor Royal Society

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Royal Society awards Sylvester Medal
3rd Earl Russell awardReceived Sylvester Medal
subject surface form: Bertrand Russell
Élie Cartan awardReceived Sylvester Medal
Sophus Lie awardReceived Sylvester Medal
Henri Poincaré awardReceived Sylvester Medal
Harold Davenport awardReceived Sylvester Medal
Tullio Levi-Civita awardReceived Sylvester Medal
this entity surface form: Royal Society Sylvester Medal
Jean-Pierre Serre awardReceived Sylvester Medal
H. S. M. Coxeter awardReceived Sylvester Medal
Royal Society medals includes Sylvester Medal
John Edensor Littlewood awardReceived Sylvester Medal
Louis Mordell awardReceived Sylvester Medal
Klaus Roth awardReceived Sylvester Medal
Vito Volterra awardReceived Sylvester Medal
this entity surface form: Royal Society Sylvester Medal
Peter Whittle awardReceived Sylvester Medal
Alan Baker awardReceived Sylvester Medal
Sir John Kingman awardReceived Sylvester Medal
J. H. C. Whitehead awardReceived Sylvester Medal
Henri Lebesgue awardReceived Sylvester Medal
Mary Cartwright awardReceived Sylvester Medal
Harald Cramér awardReceived Sylvester Medal
Timothy Gowers awardReceived Sylvester Medal
John G. Thompson awardReceived Sylvester Medal
Harold Jeffreys awardReceived Sylvester Medal
Henry Frederick Baker awardReceived Sylvester Medal