Fields Medal
Fields Medal
The field award is considered to be one of the highest awards that a mathematician can receive. This is also defined as the Nobel Prize in Mathematics.
The prize is awarded to two , three or four mathematicians under the age of 40 at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a conference that takes place every four years.
History
The Field’s medal was conceived by the Canadian Mathematical Professor John Charles Field’s, who was secretary of the 1924 International Mathematics Congress. He has donated funds to establish the medals, which were named in his honor.
The first field medal was awarded in 1936 to Finnish mathematician Lars Ahlfors and American mathematician J. Douglas. Its aim is to provide recognition and support to younger mathematical researchers who have made major contributions. In 2014, the Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to receive a field medal. Medalists get a cash grant of $1500.The most recent group of Field’s medalists received their awards on 1 August 2018 at the Iem held in Rio de Janerio, Brazil. In the 1997 film Gead will Hunting, fictional MIT professor Gerald Lambeau is described as having been awarded a Field’s medal for his work in combinatorial mathematics. Since 1936, 44 mathematicians have received the fields medal.
The list of Field’s medal winners:
Fields Medal Prize for Mathematics 1936 – 2018
| Year | Name | Affiliation at the time of the award | |
| 2018 | Caucher | Birkar | University of Cambridge, UK |
| 2018 | Alessio | Figalli | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in
Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2018 | Peter | Scholze | Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn,
German y |
| 2018 | Akshav | Venkatesh | Princeton University’s Institute for Advanced Studies, USA |
| 2014 | Artur | Avila C orderion
de Melo |
CNRS – lnstitut de Mathématiques de Jussieu- Paris Rive Gauche, France |
| 2014 | Manjul | Bhargave |
Princeton University, USA |
| 2014 | Martin | Hairer | University of Warwick, UK |
| 2014 | Maryarn | Mirzakhani |
Stanford University, USA |
| 2010 | Ngo Bao | Chau | Université Paris-Sud I I , France, and Institute
for Advanced Study, USA |
| 2010 | Elon | Lindenstrauss | Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
| 2010 | Stani slav K | Smirnox’ |
University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| 2010 | Cedric | Villani | Role Normale Supérieure de Lyon and lnstitut
Henri Poincaré, France |
| 2006 | Andrei | Okounkov | Princeton University, USA |
| 2006 | Grigori | Perelman | Declined the prize |
| 2006 | Terence | Tao | University of California, USA |
| 2006 | Wendelin | Werner | Université Paris-Sud, France |
| 2002 | Laurent | Lafforgue |
lnstitut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, France |
| 2002 | Vladimir | Voevrxlsky | Institute for Advanced Study, USA |
| 1998 | Richard E. | Borcherds | University of Cambridge, UK |
| 1998 | W.Timothy | Gowers | University of Cambridge, UK |
| 1998 | Maxim | Kontsevich | lnstitut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques,
France |
| 1998 | Cuni s T. | McMullen | Harvard University, USA |
| 1994 | Jean | Bourgain | lnstitut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques,
France |
| 1994 | Pierre-Louis | Lions |
Université de Paris-Dauphine, C EREM ADE, France |
| 1994 | Jean-Christophe | Yoccoz |
Université de Paris-Sud (Orsay), France |
| 1994 | Efirm 1. | Zel manov | U niversit y of Wisconsin (now at the
University of Chicago), USA |
| 1990 | Vladimir | Drinfeld | Steklov Mat hematical Institute, Russia |
| 1990 | Vaughan F.R. | Jones |
Columbia Universit y, USA |
| 1990 | Shigefumi | Mori |
Harvard University, USA |
| 1990 | Edward | Witten |
Princeton University, USA |
| 1986 | Simon K | Donaldson | University of Oxford, UK |
| 1986 | Gerd | Faltings |
Princeton University, USA |
| 1986 | Michael H | Freedman |
University of California, USA |
| 1982 | Alain | Connes | lnstitut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques ,
France |
| 1982 | William P. | Thurston | Princeton University, USA |
| 1982 | Shing -Tung | Yau | Institute for Advanced Study, USA |
| 1978 | Pierre Rene | Deligne |
lnstitut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, France |
| 1978 | Charles Louis | Fefferman |
Princeton University, USA |
| 1978 | Gregori
Aleksandrovitch |
Margulis |
University of Moscow, Russia |
| 1978 | Daniel G. | Quillen |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA |
| 1974 | Enrico | E.Bombieri |
University of Pisa, Italy |
| 1974 | David Bryant | Mu mford |
Harvard University, USA |
| 1970 | Alan | Basker |
University of Cambridge, UK |
| 1970 | Heisuke | Hironaka |
Harvard University, USA |
| 1970 | Serge P. | Novikov |
Belorusskii Univ’ersity, Belarus |
| 1970 | John Griggs | Thompson | University of Chicago, USA |
| 1966 | Michael Francis | Atiyah |
U niversit y of Oxford, UK |
| 1966 | Paul Joseph | Cohen | Stanford University, USA |
| 1966 | Alexander | Grothendieck |
University of Paris, France |
| 1966 | Stephe | Smale | University of California, USA |
| 1962 | Lars | Hormander |
Stockholm University, Sweden |
| 1962 | John Willard | Milnor |
Princeton University, USA |
| 1958 | Klaus Friedrich | Roth |
London University, UK |
| 1958 | Rene | Thom | University of Strasbourg, France |
| 1954 | Kunihiko |
Princeton University, USA |
|
| 1954 | Jean- Pierre | Serre | College de France, France |
| 1950 | Laurent | Schwartz | Nancy University, France |
| 1950 | Atle | Selberg |
Institute for Advanced Study, USA |
| 1936 | Lars Valerian | Ahlfors |
Harvard University, USA |
| 1936 | Jesse | Douglas | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MfT),
USA |
References
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- International Mathematical Union. “Fields Medals and Rolf Nevanlinna Prize.” https://www.mathunion.org/medals/.
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- Technische Universität Berlin. “The Four Fields Medallists and the Nevanlinna Prize Winner of The International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin 1998.”https://www.tu-berlin.de/presse/pi/1998/pi182e.htm.
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- IMG-20200804-WA0027: http://iitp.ru/en/awards/145.htm
- IMG-20200804-WA0028: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charles_Fields
- unnamed: http://webdoc.gwdg.de/IMU/medals/
