Several prizes are awarded periodically for outstanding mathematical achievement. There is no Nobel Prize in mathematics, and the most prestigious mathematical award
is known as the Fields medal. In rough order of importance,
other awards are the Wolf Prize of the Wolf Foundation of Israel, the Leroy
P. Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society, followed by the Bôcher
Prize, Cole Prizes in algebra and number theory,
and the Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize, all presented by the American Mathematical Society.
The Clay Mathematics Institute established a $7 million fund for the seven Millennium Prize Problems, with $1 million allocated to each solution. Six remain unsolved;
the Poincaré conjecture was proved
by Perelman (Clay Mathematics Institute 2026).
A cash prize of $100000 has been offered for proof or discovery of a counterexample
to Beal's conjecture.
In the Season 1 episode "Prime Suspect" (2005) of the television crime drama NUMB3RS,
it is mentioned that solving the Riemann hypothesis
is one of the Millennium Prize Problems.
Wolf Prize of the Wolf Foundation of Israel, the Leroy
P. Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society, followed by the Bôcher
Prize, Cole Prizes in algebra and number theory,
and the Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize, all presented by the American Mathematical Society.
