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Fields Medal 2022
July 11 , 2022
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- Four mathematicians have been awarded the prestigious Fields Medals.
- It is dubbed as the Nobel prize in maths.
- It is awarded by the International Mathematical Union (IMU).
- It is an international non-governmental and non-profit scientific organisation.
- It is awarded to mathematicians under 40.
- The four awardees of the prize include
- France’s Hugo Duminil-Copin - Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
- US-based June Huh – Princeton University
- Britain’s James Maynard – University of Oxford
- Ukraine’s Maryna Viazovska – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
- Ukraine’s Maryna is only the second woman to receive the award.
- The other female laureate was Iran’s Maryam Mirzakhani in 2014.
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