Fields Medal awarded to 4 mathematicians in Brazil

          Source: Xinhua| 2018-08-02 05:45:47|Editor: mmm
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          The Fields Medal winner Peter Scholze (C) of Germany is awarded during the opening ceremony of the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Aug. 1, 2018. Mathematicians from Germany, India, Iran and Italy were awarded the prestigious Fields Medal during the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Li Ming)

          RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Mathematicians from Germany, India, Iran and Italy were awarded the prestigious Fields Medal during the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday.

          Peter Scholze of Germany, Akshay Venkatesh of India, Caucher Birkar of Iran and Alessio Figalli of Italy received the coveted award, considered the Nobel Prize of mathematics.

          The Fields Medal is awarded every four years by the International Mathematical Union (IMU).

          Brazil became the first country in Latin America to host the event, which this year drew more than 2,500 mathematicians from around the world.

          The Fields Medal, the highest honor a mathematician can receive, is presented to mathematicians under the age of 40 for their contributions to the field.

          Scholze, 30, is a professor at the University of Bonn, where he is part of a group that works in arithmetic algebraic geometry.

          Venkatesh, 36, is a professor at Stanford University in California. His area of research includes number theory.

          Birkar, 40, an Iranian-Kurdish refugee, is a professor at the University of Cambridge. He received the award for his work categorizing different kinds of polynomial equations. Winners must be under 40 at the start of the year the prize is given.

          Figalli, 34, whose work is focused primarily on calculus of variations and partial differential equations, won the award for his work in optimal transport. He is a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in Zurich.

          The Fields Medal was first awarded in 1936 and has been given out every four years since 1950.

          The congress concludes on Aug. 9. Among the events being held at the same time as the congress is the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics, the first global gathering of women mathematicians.

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