[2] The annual award comes with a cash gift of $3 million.
Starting in 2021 (prizes announced in September 2020), the $50,000 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize is also awarded to a number of women mathematicians who have completed their PhDs within the past two years.
The founders of the prize have stated that they want to help scientists to be perceived as celebrities again, and to reverse a 50-year "downward trend".
[3] They hope that this may make "more young students aspire to be scientists".
1981) The past laureates of the New Horizons in Mathematics prize are:[22]