Fermat Prize

The Fermat prize of mathematical research rewards research works in fields where the contributions of Pierre de Fermat have been decisive:Statements of Variational PrinciplesFoundations of Probability and Analytical GeometryNumber 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 Fermat prize was created in 1989 and is awarded once every two years in Toulouse by the Institut de Mathmatiques de Toulouse. The amount of the Fermat prize has been fixed at 20 000 Euros for the eleventh edition (2009).