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The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years. The name of the award honours the Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields.[1]

The Fields Medal is regarded as one of the highest honors a mathematician can receive, and has been described as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics,[2][3][4] although there are several major differences, including frequency of award, number of awards, age limits, monetary value, and award criteria.[5] According to the annual Academic Excellence Survey by ARWU, the Fields Medal is consistently regarded as the top award in the field of mathematics worldwide,[6] and in another reputation survey conducted by IREG in 2013–14, the Fields Medal came closely after the Abel Prize as the second most prestigious international award in mathematics.[7][8]

The prize includes a monetary award which, since 2006, has been Шаблон:CA$15,000.[9][10] Fields was instrumental in establishing the award, designing the medal himself, and funding the monetary component, though he died before it was established and his plan was overseen by John Lighton Synge.[1]

The medal was first awarded in 1936 to Finnish mathematician Lars Ahlfors and American mathematician Jesse Douglas, and it has been awarded every four years since 1950. Its purpose is to give recognition and support to younger mathematical researchers who have made major contributions. In 2014, the Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani became the first female Fields Medalist.[11][12][13] In total, 64 people have been awarded the Fields Medal.

The most recent group of Fields Medalists received their awards on 5 July 2022 in an online event which was live-streamed from Helsinki, Finland. It was originally meant to be held in Saint Petersburg, Russia, but was moved following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Conditions of the award

The Fields Medal has for a long time been regarded as the most prestigious award in the field of mathematics and is often described as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics.[2][3][4] Unlike the Nobel Prize, the Fields Medal is only awarded every four years. The Fields Medal also has an age limit: a recipient must be under age 40 on 1 January of the year in which the medal is awarded. The under-40 rule is based on Fields's desire that "while it was in recognition of work already done, it was at the same time intended to be an encouragement for further achievement on the part of the recipients and a stimulus to renewed effort on the part of others."[14] Moreover, an individual can only be awarded one Fields Medal; winners are ineligible to be awarded future medals.[15]

First awarded in 1936, 64 people have won the medal as of 2022.[16] With the exception of two PhD holders in physics (Edward Witten and Martin Hairer),[17] only people with a PhD in mathematics have won the medal.[18]

List of Fields medalists

In certain years, the Fields medalists have been officially cited for particular mathematical achievements, while in other years such specificities have not been given. However, in every year that the medal has been awarded, noted mathematicians have lectured at the International Congress of Mathematicians on each medalist's body of work. In the following table, official citations are quoted when possible (namely for the years 1958, 1998, and every year since 2006). For the other years through 1986, summaries of the ICM lectures, as written by Donald Albers, Gerald L. Alexanderson, and Constance Reid, are quoted.[19] In the remaining years (1990, 1994, and 2002), part of the text of the ICM lecture itself has been quoted.

Year ICM location Medalists[20] Affiliation
(when awarded)
Affiliation
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Reasons
1936 Oslo, Norway Файл:Lars Ahlfors - MFO.jpg Шаблон:Sortname University of Helsinki, Finland Harvard University, US[21][22] "Awarded medal for research on covering surfaces related to Riemann surfaces of inverse functions of entire and meromorphic functions. Opened up new fields of analysis."[23]
Файл:Portrait of Jesse Douglas in c. 1932.jpg Шаблон:Sortname Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US City College of New York, US[24][25] "Did important work on the Plateau problem which is concerned with finding minimal surfaces connecting and determined by some fixed boundary."[23]
1950 Cambridge, US Файл:LaurentSchwartz.jpg Шаблон:Sortname University of Nancy, France University of Paris VII, France[26][27] "Developed the theory of distributions, a new notion of generalized function motivated by the Dirac delta-function of theoretical physics."[28]
Файл:Atle Selberg.jpg Шаблон:Sortname Institute for Advanced Study, US Institute for Advanced Study, US[29] "Developed generalizations of the sieve methods of Viggo Brun; achieved major results on zeros of the Riemann zeta function; gave an elementary proof of the prime number theorem (with P. Erdős), with a generalization to prime numbers in an arbitrary arithmetic progression."[28]
1954 Amsterdam, Netherlands Файл:Kodaira Kunihiko.jpg Шаблон:Sortname Princeton University, US, University of Tokyo, Japan and Institute for Advanced Study, US[30] University of Tokyo, Japan[31] "Achieved major results in the theory of harmonic integrals and numerous applications to Kählerian and more specifically to algebraic varieties. He demonstrated, by sheaf cohomology, that such varieties are Hodge manifolds."[32]Шаблон:Dubious
Файл:Jean-Pierre Serre, Erlangen 1997.JPG Шаблон:Sortname University of Nancy, France Collège de France, France[33][34] "Achieved major results on the homotopy groups of spheres, especially in his use of the method of spectral sequences. Reformulated and extended some of the main results of complex variable theory in terms of sheaves."[32]
1958 Edinburgh, UK Шаблон:Sortname University College London, UK Imperial College London, UK[35] "for solving a famous problem of number theory, namely, the determination of the exact exponent in the Thue-Siegel inequality"[36]
Файл:René Thom.jpeg Шаблон:Sortname University of Strasbourg, France Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France[37] "for creating the theory of 'Cobordisme' which has, within the few years of its existence, led to the most penetrating insight into the topology of differentiable manifolds."[36]
1962 Stockholm, Sweden Файл:Lars Hörmander.jpg Шаблон:Sortname University of Stockholm, Sweden Lund University, Sweden[38] "Worked in partial differential equations. Specifically, contributed to the general theory of linear differential operators. The questions go back to one of Hilbert's problems at the 1900 congress."[39]
Файл:John Milnor, 1993 Oct (portioned).jpg Шаблон:Sortname Princeton University, US Stony Brook University, US[40] "Proved that a 7-dimensional sphere can have several differential structures; this led to the creation of the field of differential topology."[39]
1966 Moscow, USSR Файл:Atiyah-Hirzebruch crop.jpeg Шаблон:Sortname University of Oxford, UK University of Edinburgh, UK[41] "Did joint work with Hirzebruch in K-theory; proved jointly with Singer the index theorem of elliptic operators on complex manifolds; worked in collaboration with Bott to prove a fixed point theorem related to the 'Lefschetz formula'."[42]
Шаблон:Sortname Stanford University, US Stanford University, US[43] "Used technique called "forcing" to prove the independence in set theory of the axiom of choice and of the generalized continuum hypothesis. The latter problem was the first of Hilbert's problems of the 1900 Congress."[42]
Файл:Alexander Grothendieck.jpg Шаблон:Sortname Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France[44] "Built on work of Weil and Zariski and effected fundamental advances in algebraic geometry. He introduced the idea of K-theory (the Grothendieck groups and rings). Revolutionized homological algebra in his celebrated ‘Tôhoku paper’."[42]
Файл:Stephen Smale2.jpg Шаблон:Sortname University of California, Berkeley, US City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong[45] "Worked in differential topology where he proved the generalized Poincaré conjecture in dimension n≥5: Every closed, n-dimensional manifold homotopy-equivalent to the n-dimensional sphere is homeomorphic to it. Introduced the method of handle-bodies to solve this and related problems."[42]
1970 Nice, France Файл:Alan Baker.jpg Шаблон:Sortname University of Cambridge, UK Trinity College, Cambridge, UK[46] "Generalized the Gelfond-Schneider theorem (the solution to Hilbert's seventh problem). From this work he generated transcendental numbers not previously identified."[47]
Файл:Hironaka heisuke 1976.jpg Шаблон:Sortname Harvard University, US Kyoto University, Japan[48][49] "Generalized work of Zariski who had proved for dimension ≤ 3 the theorem concerning the resolution of singularities on an algebraic variety. Hironaka proved the results in any dimension."[47]
Файл:Sergei Novikov 1967.jpg Шаблон:Sortname Moscow State University, USSR Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russia

Moscow State University, Russia University of Maryland-College Park, US[50][51]

"Made important advances in topology, the most well-known being his proof of the topological invariance of the Pontryagin classes of the differentiable manifold. His work included a study of the cohomology and homotopy of Thom spaces."[47]
Файл:John Griggs Thompson (cropped).jpg Шаблон:Sortname University of Cambridge, UK University of Cambridge, UK

University of Florida, US[52]

"Proved jointly with W. Feit that all non-cyclic finite simple groups have even order. The extension of this work by Thompson determined the minimal simple finite groups, that is, the simple finite groups whose proper subgroups are solvable."[47]
1974 Vancouver, Canada Файл:Enrico Bombieri.jpg Шаблон:Sortname University of Pisa, Italy Institute for Advanced Study, US[53] "Major contributions in the primes, in univalent functions and the local Bieberbach conjecture, in theory of functions of several complex variables, and in theory of partial differential equations and minimal surfaces – in particular, to the solution of Bernstein's problem in higher dimensions."[54]
Файл:Mumford2.jpg Шаблон:Sortname Harvard University, US Brown University, US[55] "Contributed to problems of the existence and structure of varieties of moduli, varieties whose points parametrize isomorphism classes of some type of geometric object. Also made several important contributions to the theory of algebraic surfaces."[54]
1978 Helsinki, Finland Файл:Pierre Deligne (2005) (cropped).jpg Шаблон:Sortname Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France Institute for Advanced Study, US[56] "Gave solution of the three Weil conjectures concerning generalizations of the Riemann hypothesis to finite fields. His work did much to unify algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory."[57]
Файл:Charles Fefferman.jpg Шаблон:Sortname Princeton University, US Princeton University, US[58] "Contributed several innovations that revised the study of multidimensional complex analysis by finding correct generalizations of classical (low-dimensional) results."[57]Шаблон:Dubious
Файл:Grigory Margulis 1978 (portioned).jpg Шаблон:Sortname Moscow State University, USSR Yale University, US[59] "Provided innovative analysis of the structure of Lie groups. His work belongs to combinatorics, differential geometry, ergodic theory, dynamical systems, and Lie groups."[57]
Шаблон:Sortname Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US University of Oxford, UK[60] "The prime architect of the higher algebraic K-theory, a new tool that successfully employed geometric and topological methods and ideas to formulate and solve major problems in algebra, particularly ring theory and module theory."[57]
1982 Warsaw, Poland Файл:Alain Connes.jpg Шаблон:Sortname Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France

Collège de France, France Ohio State University, US[61]

"Contributed to the theory of operator algebras, particularly the general classification and structure theorem of factors of type III, classification of automorphisms of the hyperfinite factor, classification of injective factors, and applications of the theory of C*-algebras to foliations and differential geometry in general."[62]
Файл:William Thurston.jpg Шаблон:Sortname Princeton University, US Cornell University, US[63] "Revolutionized study of topology in 2 and 3 dimensions, showing interplay between analysis, topology, and geometry. Contributed idea that a very large class of closed 3-manifolds carry a hyperbolic structure."[62]
Файл:Shing-Tung Yau at Harvard.jpg Шаблон:Sortname Institute for Advanced Study, US Tsinghua University, China[64] "Made contributions in differential equations, also to the Calabi conjecture in algebraic geometry, to the positive mass conjecture of general relativity theory, and to real and complex Monge–Ampère equations."[62]
1986 Berkeley, US Файл:Simon Donaldson.jpg Шаблон:Sortname University of Oxford, UK Imperial College London, UK[65] Stony Brook University, US[66] "Received medal primarily for his work on topology of four-manifolds, especially for showing that there is a differential structure on euclidian four-space which is different from the usual structure."[67][68]Шаблон:Dubious
Файл:Gerd Faltings MFO.jpg Шаблон:Sortname Princeton University, US Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Germany[69] "Using methods of arithmetic algebraic geometry, he received medal primarily for his proof of the Mordell Conjecture."[67]
Файл:Michael Freedman, circa 1970s (re-scanned C; headshot).jpg Шаблон:Sortname University of California, San Diego, US Microsoft Station Q, US[70] "Developed new methods for topological analysis of four-manifolds. One of his results is a proof of the four-dimensional Poincaré Conjecture."[67]
1990 Kyoto, Japan Шаблон:Sortname B Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, USSR[71] University of Chicago, US[72] "Drinfeld's main preoccupation in the last decade [are] Langlands' program and quantum groups. In both domains, Drinfeld's work constituted a decisive breakthrough and prompted a wealth of research."[73]
Файл:Vaughan Jones p1190550.jpg Шаблон:Sortname University of California, Berkeley, US University of California, Berkeley, US[74]

Vanderbilt University, US[75]

"Jones discovered an astonishing relationship between von Neumann algebras and geometric topology. As a result, he found a new polynomial invariant for knots and links in 3-space."[76]
Файл:Shigefumi Mori.jpg Шаблон:Sortname Kyoto University, Japan Kyoto University, Japan[77] "The most profound and exciting development in algebraic geometry during the last decade or so was [...] Mori's Program in connection with the classification problems of algebraic varieties of dimension three." "Early in 1979, Mori brought to algebraic geometry a completely new excitement, that was his proof of Hartshorne's conjecture."[78]
Файл:Edward Witten at Harvard.jpg Шаблон:Sortname Institute for Advanced Study, US Institute for Advanced Study, US[79] "Time and again he has surprised the mathematical community by a brilliant application of physical insight leading to new and deep mathematical theorems."[80]
1994 Zürich, Switzerland Файл:Jean Bourgain (vertical crop).jpg Шаблон:Sortname Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France Institute for Advanced Study, US[81] "Bourgain's work touches on several central topics of mathematical analysis: the geometry of Banach spaces, convexity in high dimensions, harmonic analysis, ergodic theory, and finally, nonlinear partial differential equations from mathematical physics."[82]
Файл:Pierre-Louis Lions par Philippe Binant.jpg Шаблон:Sortname University of Paris 9, France Collège de France, France

École polytechnique, France[83]

"His contributions cover a variety of areas, from probability theory to partial differential equations (PDEs). Within the PDE area he has done several beautiful things in nonlinear equations. The choice of his problems have always been motivated by applications."[84]
Файл:Jean-Christophe Yoccoz.jpg Шаблон:Sortname Paris-Sud 11 University, France Collège de France, France[85] "Yoccoz obtained a very enlightening proof of Bruno's theorem, and he was able to prove the converse [...] Palis and Yoccoz obtained a complete system of C conjugation invariants for Morse-Smale diffeomorphisms."[86]
Файл:EfimIZelmanov.jpg Шаблон:Sortname University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Chicago, US Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russia,

University of California, San Diego, US[87]

"For the solution of the restricted Burnside problem."[88]
1998 Berlin, Germany Файл:Richard Borcherds.jpg Шаблон:Sortname University of California, Berkeley, US

University of Cambridge, UK

University of California, Berkeley, US[89] "For his contributions to algebra, the theory of automorphic forms, and mathematical physics, including the introduction of vertex algebras and Borcherds' Lie algebras, the proof of the Conway–Norton moonshine conjecture and the discovery of a new class of automorphic infinite products."[90]
Файл:Gowers timothy 2011.jpg Шаблон:Sortname University of Cambridge, UK University of Cambridge, UK[91] "For his contributions to functional analysis and combinatorics, developing a new vision of infinite-dimensional geometry, including the solution of two of Banach's problems and the discovery of the so called Gowers' dichotomy: every infinite dimensional Banach space contains either a subspace with many symmetries (technically, with an unconditional basis) or a subspace every operator on which is Fredholm of index zero."[90]
Файл:Maxim Kontsevich 1994 (headshot).jpg Шаблон:Sortname Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France

Rutgers University, US

Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France

Rutgers University, US[92]

"For his contributions to algebraic geometry, topology, and mathematical physics, including the proof of Witten's conjecture of intersection numbers in moduli spaces of stable curves, construction of the universal Vassiliev invariant of knots, and formal quantization of Poisson manifolds."[90]
Файл:Curtis T. McMullen, 1994 Aug-Sept (re-scanned, headshot).jpg Шаблон:Sortname Harvard University, US Harvard University, US[93] "For his contributions to the theory of holomorphic dynamics and geometrization of three-manifolds, including proofs of Bers' conjecture on the density of cusp points in the boundary of the Teichmüller space, and Kra's theta-function conjecture."[90]
2002 Beijing, China Файл:Laurent Lafforgue.png Шаблон:Sortname Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France[94] "Laurent Lafforgue has been awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Langlands correspondence for the full linear groups GLr (r≥1) over function fields of positive characteristic."[95]
Файл:VladimirVoevodsky.jpg Шаблон:Sortname Institute for Advanced Study, US Institute for Advanced Study, US[96] "He defined and developed motivic cohomology and the A1-homotopy theory, provided a framework for describing many new cohomology theories for algebraic varieties; he proved the Milnor conjectures on the K-theory of fields."[97]
2006 Madrid, Spain Файл:Andrei Okounkov 1999 (re-scanned, portioned).jpg Шаблон:Sortname Princeton University, US Columbia University, US[98]

University of California, Berkeley, US[99]

"For his contributions bridging probability, representation theory and algebraic geometry."[100]
Файл:Grigori Perelman, 1993 (re-scanned) (cropped).jpg Шаблон:Sortname (declined) None St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia[101] "For his contributions to geometry and his revolutionary insights into the analytical and geometric structure of the Ricci flow."[100]
Файл:Terence Tao.jpg Шаблон:Sortname University of California, Los Angeles, US University of California, Los Angeles, US[102] "For his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis and additive number theory."[100]
Файл:Wendelin Werner.jpg Шаблон:Sortname Paris-Sud 11 University, France ETH Zurich, Switzerland[103] "For his contributions to the development of stochastic Loewner evolution, the geometry of two-dimensional Brownian motion, and conformal field theory."[100]
2010 Hyderabad, India Файл:Elon Lindenstrauss MFO.jpg Шаблон:Sortname Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Princeton University, US

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel[104] "For his results on measure rigidity in ergodic theory, and their applications to number theory."[105]
Файл:Ngo Bau Chau MFO.jpg Ngô Bảo Châu Paris-Sud 11 University, France

Institute for Advanced Study, US

University of Chicago, US

Institute for Advanced Study, US[106]

"For his proof of the Fundamental Lemma in the theory of automorphic forms through the introduction of new algebra-geometric methods."[105]
Файл:Stanislav Smirnov2005 2.JPG Шаблон:Sortname University of Geneva, Switzerland University of Geneva, Switzerland

St. Petersburg State University, Russia[107]

"For the proof of conformal invariance of percolation and the planar Ising model in statistical physics."[105]
Файл:Cedric Villani at his office 2015 n2 (cropped).jpg Шаблон:Sortname École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

Institut Henri Poincaré, France

Lyon University, France

Institut Henri Poincaré, France[108]

"For his proofs of nonlinear Landau damping and convergence to equilibrium for the Boltzmann equation."[105]
2014 Seoul, South Korea Файл:Artur Ávila crop.jpg Шаблон:Sortname University of Paris VII, France

CNRS, France Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Brazil

University of Zurich, Switzerland

Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Brazil

"For his profound contributions to dynamical systems theory, which have changed the face of the field, using the powerful idea of renormalization as a unifying principle."[109]
Файл:Manjul Bhargava.jpg Шаблон:Sortname Princeton University, US Princeton University, US[110][111][112] "For developing powerful new methods in the geometry of numbers, which he applied to count rings of small rank and to bound the average rank of elliptic curves."[109]
Файл:Professor Martin Hairer FRS.jpg Шаблон:Sortname University of Warwick, UK Imperial College London, UK "For his outstanding contributions to the theory of stochastic partial differential equations, and in particular for the creation of a theory of regularity structures for such equations."[109]
Файл:Maryam Mirzakhani (cropped).jpg Шаблон:Sortname Stanford University, US Stanford University, US[113][114] "For her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces."[109]
2018 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Файл:Birkar (cropped01).jpg Шаблон:Sortname University of Cambridge, UK University of Cambridge, UK "For the proof of the boundedness of Fano varieties and for contributions to the minimal model program."[115]
Файл:Alessio Figalli (cropped).jpg Шаблон:Sortname Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland "For contributions to the theory of optimal transport and its applications in partial differential equations, metric geometry and probability."[115]
Файл:Peter Scholze (cropped).jpg Шаблон:Sortname University of Bonn, Germany University of Bonn, Germany "For having transformed arithmetic algebraic geometry over p-adic fields."[115]
Файл:Akshay Venkatesh 2014 (cropped).jpg Шаблон:Sortname Stanford University, US Institute for Advanced Study, US[116] "For his synthesis of analytic number theory, homogeneous dynamics, topology, and representation theory, which has resolved long-standing problems in areas such as the equidistribution of arithmetic objects."[115]
2022 Helsinki, FinlandШаблон:Efn Файл:Hugo Duminil-Copin in Oberwolfach (cropped).jpg Шаблон:Sortname Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France

University of Geneva, Switzerland [117]

Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France

University of Geneva, Switzerland [117]

"For solving longstanding problems in the probabilistic theory of phase transitions in statistical physics, especially in dimensions three and four."[118]
Файл:June Huh - ICM 2018.jpg Шаблон:Sortname Princeton University, US Princeton University, US "For bringing the ideas of Hodge theory to combinatorics, the proof of the Dowling–Wilson conjecture for geometric lattices, the proof of the Heron–Rota–Welsh conjecture for matroids, the development of the theory of Lorentzian polynomials, and the proof of the strong Mason conjecture."[118]
Файл:James Maynard MFO 2013.jpg Шаблон:Sortname University of Oxford, UK University of Oxford, UK "For contributions to analytic number theory, which have led to major advances in the understanding of the structure of prime numbers and in Diophantine approximation."[118]
Файл:Maryna Vazovska MFO 2013 crop.jpg Шаблон:Sortname École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland "For the proof that the <math>E_8</math> lattice provides the densest packing of identical spheres in 8 dimensions, and further contributions to related extremal problems and interpolation problems in Fourier analysis."[118][119]

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Landmarks

The medal was first awarded in 1936 to the Finnish mathematician Lars Ahlfors and the American mathematician Jesse Douglas, and it has been awarded every four years since 1950. Its purpose is to give recognition and support to younger mathematical researchers who have made major contributions.

In 1954, Jean-Pierre Serre became the youngest winner of the Fields Medal, at 27.[120] He retains this distinction.[121]

In 1966, Alexander Grothendieck boycotted the ICM, held in Moscow, to protest Soviet military actions taking place in Eastern Europe.[122] Léon Motchane, founder and director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, attended and accepted Grothendieck's Fields Medal on his behalf.[123]

In 1970, Sergei Novikov, because of restrictions placed on him by the Soviet government, was unable to travel to the congress in Nice to receive his medal.[124]

In 1978, Grigory Margulis, because of restrictions placed on him by the Soviet government, was unable to travel to the congress in Helsinki to receive his medal. The award was accepted on his behalf by Jacques Tits, who said in his address: "I cannot but express my deep disappointment—no doubt shared by many people here—in the absence of Margulis from this ceremony. In view of the symbolic meaning of this city of Helsinki, I had indeed grounds to hope that I would have a chance at last to meet a mathematician whom I know only through his work and for whom I have the greatest respect and admiration."[125]

In 1982, the congress was due to be held in Warsaw but had to be rescheduled to the next year, because of martial law introduced in Poland on 13 December 1981. The awards were announced at the ninth General Assembly of the IMU earlier in the year and awarded at the 1983 Warsaw congress.Шаблон:Citation needed

In 1990, Edward Witten became the first physicist to win the award.[126]

In 1998, at the ICM, Andrew Wiles was presented by the chair of the Fields Medal Committee, Yuri I. Manin, with the first-ever IMU silver plaque in recognition of his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Don Zagier referred to the plaque as a "quantized Fields Medal". Accounts of this award frequently make reference that at the time of the award Wiles was over the age limit for the Fields medal.[127] Although Wiles was slightly over the age limit in 1994, he was thought to be a favorite to win the medal; however, a gap (later resolved by Taylor and Wiles) in the proof was found in 1993.[128][129]

In 2006, Grigori Perelman, who proved the Poincaré conjecture, refused his Fields Medal[9] and did not attend the congress.[130]

In 2014, Maryam Mirzakhani became the first Iranian as well as the first woman to win the Fields Medal, and Artur Avila became the first South American and Manjul Bhargava became the first person of Indian origin to do so.[131][132]

In 2022, Maryna Viazovska became the first Ukrainian to win the Fields Medal, and June Huh became the first person of Korean origin to do so.[133][134]

Medal

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The reverse of the Fields Medal

The medal was designed by Canadian sculptor R. Tait McKenzie.[135] It is made of 14KT gold, has a diameter of 63.5mm, and weighs 169g.[136]

  • On the obverse is Archimedes and a quote attributed to 1st century AD poet Manilius, which reads in Latin: "Transire suum pectus mundoque potiri" ("To surpass one's understanding and master the world").[137][138] The year number 1933 is written in Roman numerals and contains an error ("MCNXXXIII" rather than "MCMXXXIII").[139] In capital Greek letters the word ΑΡΧΙΜΗΔΟΥΣ, or "of Archimedes," is inscribed.
  • On the reverse is the inscription (in Latin):
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Translation: "Mathematicians gathered from the entire world have awarded [understood but not written: 'this prize'] for outstanding writings."

In the background, there is the representation of Archimedes' tomb, with the carving illustrating his theorem On the Sphere and Cylinder, behind an olive branch. (This is the mathematical result of which Archimedes was reportedly most proud: Given a sphere and a circumscribed cylinder of the same height and diameter, the ratio between their volumes is equal to Шаблон:Frac.)

The rim bears the name of the prizewinner.[140]

Female recipients

The Fields Medal has had two female recipients, Maryam Mirzakhani from Iran in 2014, and Maryna Viazovska from Ukraine in 2022.[131][133]

In popular culture

The Fields Medal gained some recognition in popular culture due to references in the 1997 film, Good Will Hunting. In the movie, Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgård) is an MIT professor who won the award prior to the events of the story. Throughout the film, references made to the award are meant to convey its prestige in the field.[141]

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