Sylvester Medal
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The Sylvester Medal is a bronze medal awarded every three years by the Royal Society for the encouragement of mathematical research. Instituted in 1901, it will next be awarded in 2006. The medal is named after James Joseph Sylvester, Savilian professor of geometry, Oxford, in the 1880s.
Recipients of the medal
- 1901 - Henri Poincaré
- 1904 - Georg Cantor
- 1907 - Wilhelm Wirtinger
- 1910 - Henry Frederick Baker
- 1913 - James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
- 1916 - Jean Gaston Darboux
- 1919 - Percy Alexander MacMahon
- 1922 - Tullio Levi-Civita
- 1925 - Alfred North Whitehead
- 1928 - William Henry Young
- 1931 - Edmund Taylor Whittaker
- 1934 - Bertrand Russell
- 1937 - Augustus Edward Hough Love
- 1940 - Godfrey Harold Hardy
- 1943 - John Edensor Littlewood
- 1946 - George Neville Watson
- 1949 - Louis Joel Mordell
- 1952 - Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch
- 1955 - Edward Charles Titchmarsh
- 1958 - Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman
- 1961 - Philip Hall
- 1963 - Mary Lucy Cartwright
- 1966 - Harold Davenport
- 1969 - George Frederick James Temple
- 1972 - John William Scott Cassels
- 1975 - David George Kendall
- 1978 - Graham Higman
- 1981 - John Frank Adams
- 1984 - John Griggs Thompson
- 1987 - C.T.C. Wall
- 1991 - Klaus Friedrich Roth
- 1994 - Peter Whittle
- 1997 - Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter
- 2000 - Nigel James Hitchin
- 2003 - Lennart Carleson
External links
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| Buchanan - Darwin - Davy - Gabor - Hughes - Leverhulme - Royal - Rumford - Sylvester |
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