Schock Prize in Mathematics

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The Schock Prize in Mathematics is a prestigious international award recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of mathematics, often compared in stature to the Nobel Prizes.

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instanceOf international science prize
mathematics award
administeredBy Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
alsoKnownAs Schock Prize in Mathematics
surface form: Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics
awardingBody Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
awardType prize
comparedTo Nobel Prize
country Sweden
countryOfAwarding Sweden
currencyOfMonetaryAward Swedish krona
discipline applied mathematics
pure mathematics
eligibility living mathematicians
establishedBy bequest of Rolf Schock
field mathematics
firstAwarded 1993
frequency approximately every two years
hasPart monetary award
inception 1993
isPartOf Rolf Schock Prizes
languageOfOfficialAnnouncements English
Swedish
locationOfAwarding Stockholm
namedAfter Rolf Schock
notableRecipient Alain Connes
Edward Witten
Grigory Margulis
Jean Bourgain
Lennart Carleson
Mikhail Gromov
Pierre Deligne
Yakov Sinai
prestigeLevel one of the major international mathematics prizes
purpose to honor significant achievements in mathematics
relatedAward Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy
Schock Prize in the Visual Arts
scope outstanding contributions to mathematics
selectionProcess nomination and evaluation by experts
sponsor Rolf Schock Foundation
status active

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Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy relatedAward Schock Prize in Mathematics
Rolf Schock legacy Schock Prize in Mathematics
this entity surface form: Schock Prizes in mathematics
Rolf Schock commemoratedBy Schock Prize in Mathematics
this entity surface form: Schock Prizes in mathematics
Schock Prize in Mathematics alsoKnownAs Schock Prize in Mathematics
this entity surface form: Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics
Schock Prize in the Musical Arts relatedTo Schock Prize in Mathematics