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Fields Medals
Coverage of Fields Medals in the Nexus archive.
- China’s Fields Medals triumph raises bigger math questions
Hong Wang and Yu Deng became the first citizens of the People’s Republic of China to receive Fields Medals, mathematics’ highest honor, at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia. Wang is also the third woman to receive the award.
- 2026 Fields Medals go to four young mathematicians
The 2026 Fields Medals were awarded to four young mathematicians for breakthroughs in areas including the math of messy fluids, tangled knots, and spinning pencils.