Congratulations
to
Professor Elon Lindenstrauss,
recipient of the
2009 Fermat Prize!

The FERMAT PRIZE was awarded to Elon Lindenstrauss and Cédric Villani. It rewards research works in fields where the contributions of Pierre de FERMAT have been decisive :

• Statements of Variational Principles
• Foundations of Probability and Analytical Geometry
•  Number theory.

The spirit of the prize is focused on rewarding the results of researches accessible to the greatest number of professional mathematicians within these fields.

The amount of the Fermat prize has been fixed at 20 000 Euros. The FERMAT prize is awarded once every two years in Toulouse ; the eleventh award will be announced in October 2009.