Prestigious Mathematics Award for Don Zagier

Mathematician Don Zagier, ICTP's Ramanujan International Chair, has been awarded the Heinz Gumin Prize for Mathematics for his groundbreaking research work in number theory and the theory of modular forms. The prize, awarded by the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, is the most highly endowed mathematics prize in Germany, with 50,000 euros.

Zagier became the first holder of ICTP's Ramanujan International Chair in 2022. Before that, he was the Distinguished Staff Associate in ICTP's Mathematics section, collaborating on numerous research papers with ICTP mathematicians and physicists. In addition to his ICTP affiliation, Zagier is a distinguished affiliated member of the Trieste-based Institute for Geometry and Physics, run jointly by ICTP and SISSA. Zagier is also director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn and associate member of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics.

The Gumin Prize is awarded every three to four years to an outstanding mathematician in Germany, Austria or Switzerland. The prize, which was awarded for the first time in 2010, bears the name of the mathematician and computer scientist Heinz Gumin (1928-2008), who was Chairman of the Board of Management of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation for more than 20 years. Past recipients include Fields Medallist Gerd Faltings (2010), Stefan Müller (2013), Fields Medallist Wendelin Werner (2016) and Wolfgang Hackbusch (2020).