Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Nevanlinna Prize is a prize for great contributions to mathematical aspects of information science. The prize was established in 1981 by the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union IMU and named to honour the Finnish mathematican Rolf Nevanlinna who had died just a year earlier. The prize consists of a gold medal and cash prize. Laureates Madhu Sudan (2002 Peter Shor (1998) Avi Widgerson (1994) A.A. Razborov (1990) Leslie Valiant (1986) Robert Tarjan (1982) See also: Fields Medal, Schock Prize External links Fields Medal and Rolf Nevanlinna Prizes - Official site\n This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.