#fieldsmedal2026

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In a first, Chinese woman wins the Fields Medal -~ NPR #Math #mathematics #fieldsmedal2026 https://www.npr.org/2026/07/23/g-s1-135032/in-a-first-chinese-woman-wins-the-prestigious-fields-medal

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In a first, Chinese woman wins the prestigious Fields Medal

Despite criticisms of a brain drain from China to the U.S., the awards come at a time when several high-profile Chinese scholars have returned home, some citing an increasingly hostile academic environment in America.

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Congratulations to Hong Wang https://zbmath.org/authors/wang.hong.6 for being awarded the #FieldsMedal2026 ! She is known for her work on Fourier analysis and for proving the Kakeya conjecture. "On Falconer’s distance set problem in the plane" (with Guth/Iosevich/Ou) was reviewed in https://zbmath.org/1430.28001

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Congratulations to Yu Deng https://zbmath.org/authors/deng.yu #FieldsMedal2026 Winner! He is known for his work on Hilbert's sixth problem. "Global solutions of the gravity-capillary water-wave system in three dimensions" (with A. Ionescu/B. Pausader/F. Pusateri) was reviewed in https://zbmath.org/1397.35190

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Congratulations to John Pardon https://zbmath.org/authors/pardon.john for being awarded the #FieldsMedal2026 ! He is known for his work in topology. His "Contact homology and virtual fundamental cycles" was reviewed in https://zbmath.org/1422.53071

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Congratulations to Jacob Tsimerman https://zbmath.org/authors/tsimerman.jacob for being awarded the #FieldsMedal2026 ! He is known for his work in arithmetic geometry. "The André-Oort conjecture for \(\mathcal A_g\)" was reviewed in https://zbmath.org/1415.11086

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