PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Sept. 15 -- The American Mathematical Society issued the following news release:

Simon Brendle, professor of mathematics at Columbia University, has been awarded the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics "for transformative contributions to differential geometry, including sharp geometric inequalities, many results on Ricci flow and mean curvature flow and the Lawson conjecture on minimal tori in the 3-sphere," according to the prize citation.