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Ldm1954 (talk) 17:48, 2 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your feedback.
 * The academic notability criteria number three says:
 * "The person has been ... or a fellow of a major scholarly society which reserves fellow status as a highly selective honor (e.g., Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics)."
 * She was a von Neumann Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton. The Institute of Advanced Study is described as "one of foremost centers for theoretical research", and the von Neumann Fellowship is described as the one awarded to "distinguished mid-career mathematicians and theoretical computer scientists". It is highly competitive and prestigious in these fields, and is based on research accomplishments. I understand that it is specific to the fields of mathematics and theoretical computer science, but I believe this satisfies the notability criteria. I can add this information, including the link to all von Neumann fellows (https://www.ias.edu/scholar-type/von-neumann-fellow?page=0). Should I go ahead and resubmit with this information? AFMobius (talk) 20:24, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * You should add that, but it is not enough. Being elected an AMS Fellow would be, and I don't think the von Neumann is in that class. Ldm1954 (talk) 21:24, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * If we discuss competition or prestige, I believe von Neumann Fellowship is in the higher or similar class with AMS fellows, Simons fellows, and AWM fellows. Wikipedia editors consider Simons fellowship, AMS fellow and AWM fellow enough for notability from what I see, for example this article is approved: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alina_Bucur
 * However there are differences in career stages among different fellowships, and that might have given the erroneous impression that the prestige/notability class is different. I would like to explain.
 * There about forty AMS fellows annually (see https://www.ams.org/cgi-bin/fellows/fellows_by_year.cgi), chosen solely from mathematicians with affiliations in the US, with focus on senior career stage. When a senior faculty at a research-intensive university (R1 or R2) is nominated as an AMS fellow, they will become one within 1-3 years (I do not know of any exceptions). This is not a competitive fellowship, but rather an award aimed to honor a wider group of mathematicians for their contributions. One of the official goals is: "To lift the morale of the profession by providing an honor more accessible than those currently available." (See https://www.ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/ams-fellows).
 * There are also about forty Simons fellows annually (see https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-fellows-in-mathematics/?tab=awardees), chosen from mathematicians at mid and senior career stages, affiliated in the US and Canada. The application must be timed so that the fellowship coincides with an earned and approved semester-long sabbatical at the home institution, and no other fellowship must be held at this time, so only a subset of mathematics faculty applies annually.
 * There are between ten and twenty AWM (Association for Women in Mathematics) fellows annually (see https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/2020-awm-fellows/). The award is for minority (e.g. female) mathematicians at senior and midcareer stages who are AWM members.
 * There are only up to eight (versus forty or twenty as above) von Neumann Fellows annually, chosen from applications submitted from around the world (versus only from USA as in AMS fellows, or USA + Canada as in Simons fellowship above), from mathematicians and theoretical computer scientists (versus mathematicians alone as in all fellowships above). The only restriction here is the focus on midcareer stage. Still, a midcareer faculty member faces a strong competition for a von Neumann Fellowship, likely with one in a about a hundred applicants selected. So von Neumann Fellowship is more competitive in nature than each of the above, due to a large international poll in two disciplines merged together, but significantly fewer awardees than in all of the above. Since IAS is also known as a leading research center among mathematicians, there is a high prestige in the community associated with this award.
 * Moreover, unlike all of the above, von Neumann fellowship comes with a significant monetary compensation, which allows an extra year free from teaching duties whenever it is awarded. Note that AMS fellowship and AWM fellowship do not bring any compensation or free time, and Simons fellowship allows only an extra semester added to an already approved semester-long sabbatical at the home institution. This also makes von Neumann Fellowship more desirable and thus more competitive.
 * I also would like to note the NSF CAREER award, also listed in this article (not to be confused with NSF grants) is also seen as highly competitive and prestigious in mathematical community.
 * Below are some Wikipedia pages for past von Neumann Fellows, all approved and considered notable. Some of the articles (e.g. see the first and second link) do not have other external non-student major awards (beyond von Neumann Fellowship) listed, and other notability criteria do not seem to apply to them. But the articles were approved and considered notable enough. Overall, I think the presence of these pages also shows that the group of von Neumann Fellows is considered notable by mathematical community.
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hall_(cryptographer)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Habegger
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Xuhua
 * https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assia_Mahboubi
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimi_Dai
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hochman
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alina_Bucur
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Kassel
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_S._Holm
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lan-Hsuan_Huang
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Colombo_(mathematician)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronen_Eldan
 * https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Elias_(Mathematiker)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Folsom
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Purcell
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Fargues
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Holtz
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Kassabov
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn_Kent
 * https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Klingler
 * https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kontorovich
 * https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Kowalski
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenia_Malinnikova
 * etc. (There are many more.) AFMobius (talk) 23:50, 2 December 2023 (UTC)