Riemann Prize

The Riemann Prize is an international mathematics award established in 2019 by the RISM (Riemann International School of Mathematics) on the occasion of its tenth anniversary. It is awarded every three years and consists of a gold medal and a sculpture designed by the artist Marcello Morandini.

The Riemann Prize will be announced by the end of the year and the celebrations postponed to the next year. The Riemann Prize Week, consisting of a one week celebrations with conferences, cultural events open to a wide audience, meetings with school students and citizens, culminating with the Riemann Prize Ceremony in the presence of authorities and during which the Riemann Prize laureate will deliver a colloquium, the Riemann Prize lecture.

Riemann Prize Laureates

Riemann Prize laureate 2019: Terence Tao

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Terence Tao is one of the most brilliant mathematicians of our time, often nicknamed the "Mozart of mathematics" for his extraordinary talent and precocious genius. Born in Australia in 1975, Tao demonstrated exceptional mathematical ability from an early age, reaching university levels as a child.

Specializing in harmonic analysis, number theory, combinatorics, partial differential equations, and other fields of pure and applied mathematics, he has made fundamental contributions to highly relevant problems. Among his most famous works is the proof, in collaboration with Ben Green, that there exist arithmetic progressions of any length among prime numbers (Green-Tao Theorem). He has also worked on the Collatz conjecture and other issues in analytic number theory.

Tao has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Fields Medal in 2006, the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, and the Riemann Prize, awarded for his extraordinary contribution to mathematics. He is currently a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he continues to produce innovative results and inspire mathematicians around the world.

Riemann Prize Laureate 2022: Luigi Ambrosio

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Luigi Ambrosio

A world-renowned Italian academic, mentor to an entire generation of mathematicians who currently hold the best professorships in the world, and since 2019 Director of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa: Luigi Ambrosio, born in 1963, is the winner of the 2022 Riemann Prize in Mathematics, an international award for mathematics established in 2019 by the RISM (Riemann International School of Mathematics), a school that is part of the complex of the University of Insubria.

The initiative is sponsored by the Lombardy universities, the Lombard Institute - Academy of Sciences and Letters, and is funded, in addition to the Insubrian leader, by the University of Milan and Milan Bicocca University.

Luigi Ambrosio was awarded for his contributions in the field of geometric analysis, calculus of variations, and partial differential equations and their applications.

The 2022 Riemann Prize was announced during the visit of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella for the opening of the academic year of the University of Insubria and will be presented to the winner during the Riemann Prize Week, from 10 to 14 July 2023 in Varese, at the headquarters of the University of Insubria.

The prize

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Villa Toeplitz (VA), Headquarters of the Riemann International School of Mathematics

The Riemann Prize was established in 2019 on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of RISM, under the aegis of all the Lombardy universities, through the patronage of Crui-Regione Lombardia, with the University of Insubria as the leader and with the support of the University of Milan and Milan-Bicocca University, the Lombardy Region and the Municipality of Varese.

The Prize is awarded every three years to a mathematician aged between 40 and 65 who has achieved results of great impact in the international scientific community and whose work is a tribute to the prominent figure of Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866), considered one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.

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His name pervades all of modern mathematics, and two generations later, his work proved to be the crucial tool in the development of Einstein's theory of general relativity.

He lived and worked mainly in Göttingen, but in the last part of his life, he traveled through Italy, particularly in the Insubria region, where he is buried

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Riemann Medal

The inaugural committee, which has been in charge for two prizes, consisted of: Enrico Bombieri, Institute for Advanced Studies; Alice Chang, Princeton University; Ron Donagi, University of Pennsylvania; Louis Nirenberg (1925-2020), Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences NYU; Daniele Cassani, president of RISM, University of Insubria.

The committee for the 2025 prize consists of: Martin Hairer, EPFL and Imperial College London; Terence Tao, University of California, Los Angeles - UCLA; Daniele Cassani, president of RISM, University of Insubria.

The prizes consist of a sculpture by the master Marcello Morandini and the Riemann Medal, made of 18K solid gold.

The award is promoted by the University of Insubria and sponsored by Lombardy universities, the Lombard Institute - Academy of Sciences and Letters, the University of Milan, and Milan Bicocca University.