Read our exclusive profiles of math and theoretical computer science’s finest minds.
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Every four years, the math world’s preeminent awards are given to the finest minds of a generation. The young winners — all under 40 on the first day of the year — have reshaped mathematics and theoretical computer science.
Read our exclusive profiles of this year’s Fields and Abacus Medal winners.
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Living Fully in the Math World Means Threading the Needle
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Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields Medal.
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Sometimes Being First Means Seeing the End Before Anyone Else
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Determination and effort propelled Jacob Tsimerman to the top of the math world. But now that he’s won a Fields Medal, he worries that the field is in jeopardy.
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The Quietest Mathematician Has Always Been Worth Listening To
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John Pardon sees connections between different areas of math that others don’t. For that, he’s now been awarded a Fields Medal.
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Amid Life’s Chaos, a Meticulous Mathematician Finds Stability
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Before he won a Fields Medal for his pioneering work balancing randomness and order, Yu Deng first had to achieve equilibrium in his own life.
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A Master of the Traveling Salesperson Problem Finds His Own Path
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Shayan Oveis Gharan has won the Abacus Medal for using tools from across mathematics to boost the power of algorithms.
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