The Bôcher Memorial Prize was founded by the American Mathematical Society in 1923 in memory of Maxime Bôcher with an initial endowment of $1,450 (contributed by members of that society).
The work must be published in a recognized, peer-reviewed venue.
[1] There have been forty-one prize recipients.
The first woman to win the award, Laure Saint-Raymond, did so in 2020.
About eighty percent of the journal articles recognized since 2000 have been from Annals of Mathematics, the Journal of the American Mathematical Society, Inventiones Mathematicae, and Acta Mathematica.