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Cole Prize


The American Mathematical Society awards two prizes named in honor of Prof. Frank Nelson Cole, a senior member of the AMS who made a bequest to the society in 1928 upon his retirement. This bequest was subsequently augmented by Frank's son Charles. Two separate Cole Prizes are awarded at regular intervals for outstanding contributions in algebra and number theory.

Among prominent mathematicians to have received the award were Walter Feit and John G. Thompson (1965, in recognition for the Feit-Thompson theorem in group theory), Michel Raynaud and David Harbater (1995, for their solution of Abhyankar's conjecture), and Andrew J. Wiles (1997, for his proof of Fermat's last theorem).

The following table lists winners of the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in algebra.

year winner(s)
1928 L. E. Dickson
1939 A. Adrian Albert
1944 O. Zariski
1949 R. Brauer
1954 Harish-Chandra
1960 S. Lang, M. A. Rosenlicht
1965 W. Feit, J. G. Thompson
1970 J. R. Stallings, R. G. Swan
1975 H. Bass, D. G. Quillen
1980 M. Aschbacher, M. Hochster
1985 G. Lusztig
1990 S. Mori
1995 M. Raynaud, D. Harbater
2000 A. Suslin, A. J. de Jong
2003 H. Nakajima
2006 J. Kollár
2009 C. Hacon and J. McKernan

The following table lists winners of the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in number theory.

year winner(s)
1931 H. S. Vandiver
1941 C. Chevalley
1946 H. B. Mann
1951 P. Erdős
1956 J. T. Tate
1962 K. Iwasawa, B. M. Dwork
1967 J. B. Ax, S. B. Kochen
1972 W. M. Schmidt
1977 G. Shimura
1982 R. P. Langlands, B. Mazur
1987 D. M. Goldfeld, B. H. Gross, D. B. Zagier
1992 K. Rubin, P. Vojta
1997 A. J. Wiles
2002 H. Iwaniec, R. Taylor
2005 P. Sarnak,
2008 M. Bhargava

See also

Abhyankar's Conjecture, Feit-Thompson Theorem, Fermat's Last Theorem, Mathematics Prizes

Portions of this entry contributed by Margherita Barile

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References

American Mathematical Society. "1995 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra." Not. Amer. Math. Soc. 42, 454-456, 1995. https://www.ams.org/notices/199504/prize-cole.pdf.American Mathematical Society. "1997 Cole Prize." Not. Amer. Math. Soc. 44, 346-347, 1997. https://www.ams.org/notices/199703/comm-cole.pdf.American Mathematical Society. "2002 Cole Prize in Number Theory." Not. Amer. Math. Soc. 49, 476-478, 2002. https://www.ams.org/notices/200204/comm-coleprz.pdf.American Mathematical Society. "American Mathematical Society Prizes and Funds." https://www.ams.org/prizes-awards/palist.cgi.

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