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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 |
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 |
Portions of this entry contributed by Margherita
Barile
American Mathematical Society. "1995 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra." Not. Amer. Math. Soc. 42, 454-456, 1995. http://www.ams.org/notices/199504/prize-cole.pdf.
American Mathematical Society. "1997 Cole Prize." Not. Amer. Math. Soc. 44,
346-347, 1997. http://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. http://www.ams.org/notices/200204/comm-coleprz.pdf.
American Mathematical Society. "American Mathematical Society Prizes and Funds."
http://www.ams.org/secretary/prizes.html#cole.
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