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Fields Medal 2022

  • 06 Jul 2022

Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska has been named as one of four recipients of the 2022 Fields Medal, an honour that is often described the Nobel Prize in mathematics.

  • Maryna is only the second woman to receive the award. The other female laureate was Iran’s Maryam Mirzakhani.

Awardees of 2022

  1. Hugo Duminil-Copin (France)
  2. June Huh (Korean-American)
  3. James Maynard (UK)
  4. Maryna Viazovska (Ukraine)

About the Award

  • The Fields Medal is awarded by the International Mathematical Union (IMU), an international non-governmental and non-profit scientific organisation.
  • It is awarded every four years to one or more mathematicians under the age of 40 in recognition of “outstanding mathematical achievement for existing work and for the promise of future achievement”.
  • The winners are announced at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), which was supposed to be held in Russia this year, but was moved to Helsinki.

Indians who won this Award

  1. Manjul Bhargava (2014)
  2. Akshay Venkatesh (2018)