- Organizer
- American Mathematical Society
- Why it counts
- Awarded annually by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) since 1970 (in its current three-category form since 1993), funded by the bequest of Leroy P. Steele, for lifetime achievement, mathematical exposition and seminal contributions to research
- Held
- annual, recipients announced by the AMS in late autumn, presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in early January; year = JMM year
Reigning winners
Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement · 2024
Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition · 2024
Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research · 2022
| Year | Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement | Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition | Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Haïm Brezis | Benson Farb Dan Margalit | |
| 2023 | Lawrence C. Evans | ||
| 2022 | Richard P. Stanley | Aise Johan de Jong | David P. Williamson Michel Goemans |
| 2021 | Spencer Bloch | Joel Spencer Noga Alon | Murray Gerstenhaber |
| 2020 | Karen Uhlenbeck | André Haefliger Martin Bridson | Craig Tracy Harold Widom |
| 2019 | Jeff Cheeger | Philippe Flajolet Robert Sedgewick | Haruzo Hida |
| 2018 | Jean Bourgain | Günter M. Ziegler — Proofs from THE BOOK Martin Aigner — Proofs from THE BOOK | Andrei Zelevinsky Sergey Fomin |
| 2017 | James Arthur | Dietmar Salamon Dusa McDuff | Leon Simon |
| 2016 | Barry Simon | Andrew Majda | |
| 2015 | Victor Kac | Robert Lazarsfeld | Rostyslav Hryhorchuk |