Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics

The Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics is a $5000 prize awarded every three years to for an outstanding contribution to "applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense." It was endowed in 1967 in honor of Norbert Wiener by MIT's mathematics department and is provided jointly by the American Mathematical Society and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Winners

• 1970: Richard E. Bellman
• 1975: Peter D. Lax
• 1980: Tosio Kato
• 1980: Gerald B. Whitham
• 1985: Clifford S. Gardner
• 1990: Michael Aizenman
• 1995: Hermann Flaschka
• 2000: Alexandre J. Chorin
• 2004: James A. Sethian

There is also a Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility awarded annually by CPSR.

See also

• Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility
• List of prizes
• Prizes named after people

External links

• AMS webpage for the prize (http://www.ams.org/prizes/wiener-prize.html)
• SIAM webpage for the prize (http://www.siam.org/prizes/wiener.htm)

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