The Abel Prize is an international award for outstanding work in mathematics, named after Niels Henrik Abel. It was first awarded in 2003 to Jean-Pierre Serre. The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters administers the selection.[ref]
The mathematical work behind an award is more informative than the honour alone. The 2009 award recognized Mikhail Gromov's contributions to geometry and topology, including global geometric questions whose behaviour cannot be read from local coordinates alone.[ref] The 2021 award to László Lovász and Avi Wigderson recognized contributions connecting discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science.[ref] The prize's scope therefore spans several mathematical traditions.

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