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2018 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize

A Number Theorist Who Bridges Math and Time

By Erica Klarreich
August 1, 2018
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Akshay Venkatesh, a former prodigy who struggled with the genius stereotype, has won a Fields Medal for his “profound contributions to an exceptionally broad range of subjects in mathematics.”

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2018 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize

A Poet of Computation Who Uncovers Distant Truths

By Erica Klarreich
August 1, 2018
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The theoretical computer scientist Constantinos Daskalakis has won the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize for explicating core questions in game theory and machine learning.

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2018 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize

A Master of Numbers and Shapes Who Is Rewriting Arithmetic

By Erica Klarreich
August 1, 2018
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The 30-year-old math sensation Peter Scholze is now one of the youngest Fields medalists for “the revolution that he launched in arithmetic geometry.”

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2018 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize

An Innovator Who Brings Order to an Infinitude of Equations

By Kevin Hartnett
August 1, 2018
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The mathematician Caucher Birkar was born on a subsistence farm and raised in the middle of the brutal war between Iran and Iraq. After fleeing to England, he has gone on to impose order on a wild landscape of mathematical equations.

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2018 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize

A Traveler Who Finds Stability in the Natural World

By Kevin Hartnett
August 1, 2018
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The mathematician Alessio Figalli is rarely in one place for very long. But his work has established the stability of everything from crystals to weather fronts by using concepts derived from Napoleonic fortifications.

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