The Society for the Foundations of Computational Mathematics (FoCM) created the Stephen Smale prize whose objective is to recognize the work of one or two young mathematicians in the areas at the heart of the Society’s interest and to help to promote their integration among the leaders of the scientific community. The Board of Directors of the Society decided that the physical insignia of the prize should be an individual Gömböc, designed for this very purpose. The first Stephen Smale Prize was awarded to Snorre H. Christiansen at the Budapest meeting in 2011. In 2014, at the Montevideo meeting the Society awarded two outstanding young mathematicians with the Smale Prize: Mark Braverman and Carlos Beltran. The 2017 Stephen Smale Prize was presented at the Barcelona FoCM conference to Lek-Heng Lim from the University of Chicago. The 2023 Smale Prize was presented by FoCM president Albert Cohen at the FoCM conference in Paris to the excellent young mathematician Shayan Oveis Gharan, associate professor at the University of Washington.The manufacturing of the individual Gömböc pieces for the Stephen Smale prize is made possible by the generous support of Mr. Ottó Albrecht.