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Photo illustration of Akshay Venkatesh
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 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.”

Photo illustration of Caucher Birkar
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.

Photo illustration of Alessio Figalli
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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Handicapping the 2018 Fields Medal

By Jeanette Kazmierczak
June 28, 2016
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Peter Scholze is a favorite to win one of the highest honors in mathematics for his contributions in number theory and geometry.

2014 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize

A Grand Vision for the Impossible

By Thomas Lin +1 authors
Erica Klarreich
August 12, 2014
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Subhash Khot’s bold conjecture is helping mathematicians explore the precise limits of computation.

2014 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize

In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music

By Natalie Wolchover
August 12, 2014
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Martin Hairer was named a 2014 Fields medalist for an epic masterpiece in stochastic analysis that colleagues say “created a whole world.”

2014 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize

A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces

By Erica Klarreich
August 12, 2014
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Maryam Mirzakhani, who became the first woman Fields medalist for drawing deep connections between topology, geometry and dynamical systems, has died of cancer at the age of 40. This is our 2014 profile of her life and work.

2014 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize

A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos

By Thomas Lin +1 authors
Erica Klarreich
August 12, 2014
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Artur Avila’s solutions to ubiquitous problems in chaos theory have “changed the face of the field,” earning him Brazil’s first Fields Medal.


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