- Fermat Prize
The Fermat prize of mathematical
research rewards research works in fields where the contributions of Pierre de Fermat have been decisive:* Statements of Variational Principles
* Foundations ofProbability and Analytical Geometry
*Number theory .The spirit of the prize is focused on rewarding the results of researches accessible to the greatest number of professional
mathematicians within these fields. The Fermat prize was created in1989 and is awarded once every two years inToulouse . The amount of the Fermat prize has been fixed at 20 000 Euros for the tenth edition (2007).Previous prizewinners
*1989 Awarded jointly to Abbas Bahri for the introduction of new methods in the
calculus of variations and toKenneth Ribet for his contribution tonumber theory andFermat's Last Theorem .*1991 Awarded to
Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène for his work onnumber theory andrational manifolds the research for which was undertaken to a large extent with J.-J. Sansuc.*1993 Awarded to Jean-Michel Coron for his contributions to the study of variational problems and
control theory .*1995 Awarded to
Andrew Wiles for his works on Shimura-Taniyama-Weil's conjecture which resulted in the demonstration ofFermat's Last Theorem .*1997 Awarded to
Michel Talagrand for his fundamental contributions in various domains of probability.*1999 Awarded jointly to Fabrice Bethuel and Frédéric Hélein for several important contributions to the theory of variational calculus, which have consequences in Physics and Geometry.
*2001 Awarded jointly to Richard Taylor for his various contributions to the study of links between
Galois representations andautomorphic form s and toWendelin Werner for his works on the intersection exponents ofBrownian motion and their impact in theoretical Physics.*2003 Awarded to Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italie) for his impressive contributions to the
calculus of variations andgeometric measure theory , and their link withpartial differential equation s.*2005 Awarded jointly to Pierre Colmez for his contributions to the study of
L-function s and p-adicGalois representations and toJean-François Le Gall for his contributions to the fine analysis of planarBrownian motion s, his invention of theBrownian snake and its applications to the study of non-linearpartial differential equations .*2007 Awarded to
Chandrashekhar Khare for his proof with Jean-Pierre Wintenberger of the Serre modularity conjecture in number theory.External links
* [http://www.math.ups-tlse.fr/Fermat/ Fermat Prize official web site]
* [http://www.numdam.org/numdam-bin/feuilleter?j=AFST&sl=0 Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse]
* [http://www.math.ups-tlse.fr/ Institut Mathématique de Toulouse]
* [http://www.ups-tlse.fr/ Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse]
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