A sum of nearly £900 was subscribed, and it was decided to found a medal and prize for the encouragement and reward of working mathematicians throughout the world. The Council of the Royal Society undertook the trust on condition that the medal should be awarded triennially without regard to nationality.
A bronze medal accompanied by a grant of the balance of the Sylvester Medal Fund, is accordingly awarded triennially for the Encouragement of Mathematical Research.
The winners of the medals are given below.
1901 Henri Poincaré 1904 Georg Cantor 1907 Eilhelm Wirtinger 1910 Henry F Baker 1913 James W L Glaisher 1916 Jean G Darboux 1919 Percy A MacMahon 1922 Tullio Levi-Civita 1925 Alfred N Whitehead 1928 William H Young 1931 Edmund T Whittaker 1934 Bertrand, Earl Russell 1937 Augustus E H Love 1940 Geoffrey H Hardy 1943 John E Littlewood 1946 George N Watson | 1949 Louis J Mordell 1952 Abram S Besicovitch 1955 Edward C Titchmarsh 1958 Max H A Newman 1961 Philip Hall 1964 Mary L Cartwright 1967 Harold Davenport 1970 George F J Temple 1973 John W S Cassels 1976 David G Kendall 1979 Graham Higman 1982 John Frank Adams 1985 John G Thompson 1988 Charles T C Wall 1991 Klaus Roth 1997 Harold Coxeter |
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