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The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to up to four mathematicians (not over forty years of age) at each International Congress of International Mathematical Union, since 1936 and regularly since 1948 at the initiative of the Canadian mathematican John Charles Fields. The purpose is to give recognition and support to young mathematical researchers having already made important contributions.
YearLocation Winners
2002 Beijing, China Laurent Lafforgue, Vladimir Voevodsky
1998 Berlin, Germany Richard Ewen Borcherds, William Timothy Gowers , Maxim KontsevichMaxim Kontsevich ( Russian: ) (born August 25, 1964) is a Russian mathematician. He graduated from the Moscow State University. In 1992 he received his Ph. at the University of Bonn, Germany. Currently he is a professor at the Institut des Hautes etudes s, Curtis T. McMullenCurtis T McMullen (born 21 May 1958) is Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He won the Fields Medal in 1998 for his work, particularly in complex dynamics. He was educated at Williams College and at Harvard. External links at Harvard McMullen,
19941994 is a common year starting on Saturday, and was designated the International year of the Family''. Events January events January 1 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect January 6 Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an ZürichZurich IPA [ˈtsyːrɪç] (in English often Zurich which is also the standard French form of the name) is the largest city in Switzerland (population 364,558 in 2002; as agglomeration 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zurich., SwitzerlandThe Swiss Confederation or Switzerland is a landlocked federal state in central Europe, with neighbours Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein. The country has a strong tradition of political and military neutrality, but also of international c Efim Isakovich Zelmanov, Jacques-Louis Lions , Jean BourgainJean Bourgain (born February 28, 1954, Ostende, Belgium), is a professor of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is noted as a prolific problem-solver. His work is in various areas of mathematical analysis such as the geometry of Banach spa, Jean-Christophe YoccozJean-Christophe Yoccoz (born May 29, 1957) is a French mathematician. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1994, for his work on dynamical systems. Yoccoz, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, Jean-Christophe.
1990 Kyoto, Japan Vladimir Drinfeld, Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones , Shigefumi Mori, Edward Witten
1986 Berkeley, California, USA Simon Donaldson, Gerd Faltings, Michael Freedman
1982 Warsaw, Poland Alain Connes, William Thurston, Shing-Tung Yau
1978 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Pierre Deligne, Charles Fefferman, Grigory Margulis, Daniel Quillen
1974 Helsinki, Finland Enrico Bombieri, David Mumford
1970 Nice, France Alan Baker, Heisuke Hironaka, Sergei Petrovich Novikov, John Griggs Thompson
1966 Moscow, Russia Michael Francis Atiyah, Paul Joseph Cohen, Alexander Grothendieck, Stephen Smale
1962 Stockholm, Sweden Lars Hörmander, John Milnor
1958 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Klaus Roth, Rene Thom
1954 Amsterdam, Netherlands Kunihiko Kodaira, Jean-Pierre Serre
1950 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Laurent Schwartz, Atle Selberg
1936 Oslo, Norway Lars Ahlfors, Jesse Douglas

The Fields Medal is often described as the " Nobel Prize of mathematics". The comparison is not very accurate, in particular because the age limit is applied strictly. Fields Medals are awarded for a body of work, rather than for a particular result, though there is clearly consensus that some individual theorems can and should be recognised in this way. (That is not to say that some awards from the past have not been in some ways contentious or controversial—they have.) Since the institution of the Wolf Prizes, there has been a high-profile "lifetime achievement" award in mathematics; this has to some extent redressed perceived imbalances in the weight given to different kinds of merit and the movements of intellectual fashion across mathematics as a whole.





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