Top 20 Living Mathematicians

1 Terence Tao
Nationality: Australian Claim to Fame: Green-Tao theorem, Tao's inequality, Kakeya conjecture, Horn conjecture Institutions: University of California, Los Angeles Significant Awards: Salem Prize (2000), Bcher Memorial Prize (2002), Clay Research Award (2003), Australian Mathematical Society Medal (2005), Ostrowski Prize (2005), SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2006), Levi L.Conant Prize (2005), Fields Medal (2006), MacArthur Award (2007), Fellow of the Royal Society (2007), Alan T. Wate

2 Andrew Wiles
Nationality: British Claim to Fame: Proving the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture for semistable elliptic curves, thereby proving Fermat's Last Theorem, Proving the main conjecture of Iwasawa theory Institutions: University of Oxford, Princeton University Significant Awards: Fermat Prize (1995), Wolf Prize (1995/6), Royal Medal (1996), IMU Silver Plaque (1998), King Faisal International Prize in Science (1998), Shaw Prize (2005)

3 Yurij Manin
Nationality: Russian Claim to Fame: algebraic geometry, diophantine geometry Institutions: Max-Planck-Institut fr Mathematik, Northwestern University Significant Awards: Schock Prize (1999), Cantor Medal (2002), Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (1994), Bolyai Prize (2010)

4 Elon Lindenstrauss
Nationality: Israeli Claim to Fame: Ergodic theory Institutions: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Princeton University Significant Awards: Blumenthal Award (2001), Fermat Prize (2009), Fields Medal (2010)

5 Wendelin Werner
Nationality: French Claim to Fame: Random walks, Schramm-Loewner evolution Institutions: ETH Zurich Significant Awards: Fields Medal (2006), SIAM George Plya Prize(2006), Love Prize (2005), Fermat Prize (2001), Davidson Prize (1998)

6 Bernard Silverman
Nationality: British Claim to Fame: density estimation, nonparametric regression, functional data analysis Institutions: University of Oxford Significant Awards: Gold Medal International Mathematical Olympiad, Guy Medal Royal Statistical Society, COPSS Presidents' Award

7 Endre Szemerdi
Nationality: Hungarian Claim to Fame: Szemerdi's theorem, the Szemerdi regularity lemma, the Erdos-Szemerdi theorem, the Hajnal-Szemerdi theorem, Szemerdi-Trotter theorem Institutions: Rutgers University Significant Awards: Abel Prize (2012), Rolf Schock Prizes (2008), Leroy P. Steele Prize (2008), Plya Prize (1975), Alfrd Rnyi Prize (1973), Member NAS

8 Mikhail Gromov
Nationality: Russian Claim to Fame: Geometry Institutions: Institut des Hautes tudes Scientifiques, New York University Significant Awards: Wolf Prize, Kyoto Prize, Abel Prize

9 Frank Kelly
Nationality: British Claim to Fame: Quasireversibility, Dynamic Alternative Routing, Congestion control, Loss networks Significant Awards: Davidson Prize (1979), Guy Medal in Silver (1989), Fellow of the Royal Society (1989), John von Neumann Theory Prize (2008)

10 Brian D. Ripley
Nationality: British Institutions: Imperial College (1976-83), University of Strathclyde (1983-90), St Peter's College, Oxford (1990-, present, ) Significant Awards: Smith's Prize (1975), Davidson Prize (1976), Adams Prize (1987)

11 Joseph B. Keller
Nationality: American Claim to Fame: Geometrical Theory of Diffraction, Einstein-Brillouin-Keller method Institutions: New York University, Stanford University Significant Awards: National Medal of Science (USA) in Mathematical, Statistical, and Computational Sciences (1988), Wolf Prize (1997), Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (1996)

12 Ben J. Green
Nationality: British Claim to Fame: Green-Tao theorem, proof or the CameronErdos conjecture, combinatorics and number theory. Institutions: University of Bristol, University of Cambridge Significant Awards: Clay Research Award (2004), Salem Prize (2005), SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2007), EMS Prize (2008), Fellow of the Royal Society (2010)

13 Robert Langlands
Nationality: Canadian Claim to Fame: Langlands program Institutions: Princeton University, Yale University, Institute for Advanced Study Significant Awards: Jeffery-Williams Prize (1980), Wolf Prize (1995/96), Steele Prize (2005), Nemmers Prize (2006), Shaw Prize (2007)

14 Ingrid Daubechies
Nationality: Belgian Claim to Fame: Wavelets Institutions: Princeton University, Duke University Significant Awards: Noether Lecturer, NAS Award in Mathematics (2000), MacArthur Fellowship

15 John Ball
Nationality: British Institutions: Heriot-Watt University, University of Oxford Significant Awards: Whittaker Prize, Junior Whitehead Prize, David Crighton Medal

16 C T C Wall
Nationality: British Claim to Fame: Brauer-Wall group, Wall's conjecture, Surgery on Compact Manifolds Institutions: University of Liverpool Significant Awards: Berwick Prize, Plya Prize, Sylvester Medal

17 Michael Atiyah
Nationality: British Claim to Fame: Atiyah-Singer index theorem Institutions: University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Leicester, University of Edinburgh Significant Awards: Fields Medal , (1966), Copley Medal , (1988), Abel Prize , (2004)

18 Stanislav Smirnov
Nationality: Russian Claim to Fame: Percolation thoery Institutions: University of Geneva, Royal Institute of Technology, Saint Petersburg State University, Yale University, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, IAS Princeton Significant Awards: Petersburg Mathematical Society Prize (1997), Clay Research Award (2001), Salem Prize (2001), Rollo Davidson Prize (2002), EMS Prize (2004), Fields Medal (2010)

19 Manjul Bhargava
Nationality: Canadian Claim to Fame: Gauss composition laws, 15 and 290 theorems, factorial function, ranks of elliptic curves Institutions: Princeton University Significant Awards: Infosys Prize (2012), Fermat Prize (2011), Cole Prize (2008), Clay Research Award (2005), SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2005), Hasse Prize (2003), Morgan Prize (1996), Hoopes Prize (1996)

20 Peter Hall
Nationality: Australian Claim to Fame: nonparametric statistics, the bootstrap method Significant Awards: Rollo Davidson Prize (1986)

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