Awards and achievments
- The first Wolfgang Bolyai prize of the Hungarian Academy of the Sciences was won by Henri Poincarei in 1905, but Hilbert received a special citation.
- Hilbert received the second Wolfgang Bolyai award in 1910.
- In 1930, the year of Hilbert's retirement, the city of Konigsburg made Hilbert an honorary citizen.
- Jointly won the first Mittag-Leffler prize of the Swedish Academy with his colleague Emile Picard in 1939.