Steele Prize

The Steele Prize or, properly, the Leroy P. Steele Prizes, for Lifetime Achievement, for Mathematical Exposition, and for Seminal Contribution to Research, are awarded annually by the American Mathematical Society for outstanding mathematical research. Steele Prizes were first established in 1970.

The Steele Prizes are regarded as prestigious, but unlike, for instance, the Nobel Prizes, are not well endowed; recipients are given a nominal $5,000. Neither is the Steele the mathematical equivalent of a Nobel Prize (there being no Nobel Prize for Mathematics). Whilst many prizes are compared with Nobels, in mathematics, it is more likely that such comparisons will be drawn between the Fields Medal, Wolf Prize or the Abel Prize, and the Nobel Prizes.

See also

• List of prizes
• Prizes named after people

• Leroy P. Steele Prizes on the American Mathematical Society website
• Kuro5hin article on the Fields and Abel prizes.