The Riemann International School of Mathematics was founded in 2009 and was established in 2014 as a non-profit association. Its goal is to promote fundamental mathematical research and education, through international congresses, workshops, PhD courses and school activities. RISM has a stunning location within the prestigious premises of the Universit`a degli Studi dell’Insubria at Villa Toeplitz in Varese, in Northern Italy. The Riemann Prize was established in 2019, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of RISM. Along with RISM, its co-sponsors include all public and private universities of Lombardia, the government of Regione Lombardia, and the municipality of Varese. It is to be awarded every three years by an international committee (the first one composed by Enrico Bombieri, Institute for Advanced Studies; Alice Chang, Princeton University; Ron Donagi, University of Pennsylvania, Louis Nirenberg, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the President of RISM, University of Insubria) to outstanding mathematicians aged 40–65 who have reached breakthrough achievements, as a tribute to the prominent figure of Bernhard Riemann. Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866) was among the greatest mathematicians of all times. His name is all over modern mathematics: Riemann sums and integrals, the Riemann zeta function and the Riemann Hypothesis, Riemannian geometry, Riemann surfaces and the Riemann sphere. Two generations later, his work served as a crucial tool in Einstein’s development of general relativity.
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