Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics

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See also Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility

The Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics is a $5000 prize awarded every three years to for an outstanding contribution to "applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense." It was endowed in 1967 in honor of Norbert Wiener by MIT's mathematics department and is provided jointly by the American Mathematical Society and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

[edit] Winners

• 1970: Richard E. Bellman
• 1975: Peter D. Lax
• 1980: Tosio Kato
• 1980: Gerald B. Whitham
• 1985: Clifford S. Gardner
• 1990: Michael Aizenman
• 1995: Hermann Flaschka and Ciprian Foias
• 2000: Alexandre J. Chorin and Arthur Winfree
• 2004: James A. Sethian
• 2007: Craig Tracy and Harold Widom

[edit] See also

• List of prizes
• Prizes named after people

[edit] External links

• AMS webpage for the prize
• SIAM webpage for the prize