Fields medal

The Fields Medal, officially known as the International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is an award granted to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age every four years at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) to recognize outstanding mathematical achievement for existing work and the promise of future… Source: Fields Medal: Award Winners & the History of the Biggest Prize in Mathematics on Gaurav Tiwari

Interview with Maryam Mirzakhani, winner of Fields Medal. She studied the hyperbolic surfaces, like her student Jenya Sapir. Both women believe school math and real math are so far separated and this is where the problem in our education system lies.

The publicity-averse Mirzakhani, who died Friday, is the only woman ever to win the Fields Medal, math’s highest honor.

A Ukrainian-born professor who studies how to pack spheres into many dimensions is among the winners of the major math award.

Working on the centuries-old twin primes conjecture, two solitary researchers and a massive collaboration have made enormous advances over the last six months.

The mathematician Artur Avila, 35, received the Fields Medal, popularly known as the "Nobel Prize in Mathematics".

June Huh wasn’t interested in mathematics until a chance encounter during his sixth year of college. Now his profound insights connecting combinatorics and geometry have led to math’s highest honor.