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on Tuesday as one of four recipients of the Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious accolades in mathematics, becoming just the second woman to be honored since the award was first given in 1936.The Fields Medal, often compared to the Nobel Prize, is administered by the International Mathematics Union to four researchers under the age of 40 every four years and is considered one of the most esteemed prizes for mathematics.
Viazovska, a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and a Kyiv native, is best known for her work on how to densely pack spheres in eight dimensions.to write poetry and did not turn to math until he was in his last year of college, was honored for his contributions to geometry and combinatorics, a branch of mathematics concerning how things can be arranged.
James Maynard, of the University of Oxford, and Hugo Duminil-Copin, jointly appointed at the University of Geneva and the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies in France, were also recognized for their work elucidating how prime numbers are spaced and understanding phase transitions, respectively.
The IMU awarded Mark Braverman, also of Princeton, the Abacus Medal—a similarly distinguished prize for computer science modeled on the Fields—who is best known for his work on the amount it costs to perform a computational task.The Fields Medal, conceived by Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields, is peculiar among academic prizes in that it recognizes the accomplishments of people early on in their careers.
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