Four Young Mathematicians Awarded the 2026 Fields Medals

四位年轻数学家荣获2026年菲尔兹奖

来源: scientificamerican.com | 主题: Math | 评论: 12

时间: on Thursday July 23, 2026 @01:00PM

Scientific American reports that the 2026 Fields Medals went to four mathematicians for work ranging from the theory of knots to the motion of fluid : The Fields Medals went to Hong Wang of New York University and France's Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies (IHES), Yu Deng of the University of Chicago, John Pardon of Stony Brook University and Jacob Tsimerman of the University of Toronto. In the awards' 90-year history, Wang is only the third woman to win one, after mathematicians Maryam Mirzakhani and Maryna Viazovska in 2014 and 2022, respectively. Wang and Deng represent the prizes' only Chinese-born recipients besides mathematician Shing-Tung Yau, who won a Fields Medal in 1982. Hong Wang co-proved the three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture, establishing a fundamental limit on how l

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