The
Wolf Prize in Mathematics is awarded almost annually by the
Wolf Foundation in
Israel. It is one of the six
Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in
Agriculture,
Chemistry,
Medicine,
Physics and
Arts. Until the establishment of the
Abel Prize, the Prize was probably the closest equivalent of a "Nobel Prize in Mathematics", since the
Fields Medal is awarded every four years only to mathematicians under the age of 40.