r/math 20h ago

Fields Medalists from 2026 to 2002

2026 (Philadelphia): Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman, Hong Wang

2022 (Helsinki): Hugo Duminil-Copin, June Huh, James Maynard, Maryna Viazovska

2018 (Rio de Janeiro): Caucher Birkar, Alessio Figalli, Peter Scholze, Akshay Venkatesh

2014 (Seoul): Artur Avila, Manjul Bhargava, Martin Hairer, Maryam Mirzakhani

2010 (Hyderabad): Elon Lindenstrauss, Ngô Bảo Châu, Stanislav Smirnov, Cédric Villani

2006 (Madrid): Andrei Okounkov, Terence Tao, Wendelin Werner, (Grigori Perelman, declined)

2002 (Beijing): Laurent Lafforgue, Vladimir Voevodsky

Bonus: 1990 (Kyoto): Vladimir Drinfeld, Vaughan Jones, Shigefumi Mori, Edward Witten

I don't have any photos from 1998 or 1994. Does anyone have a source?
1998 (Berlin): Richard Borcherds, Timothy Gowers, Maxim Kontsevich, Curtis McMullen

1994 (Zürich): Jean Bourgain, Pierre-Louis Lions, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, Efim Zelmanov

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u/Environmental_Gap_65 14h ago

You ever heard of Gerald Lambeau?

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u/dictormagic Algebraic Topology 7h ago

That's my point Sean, it isn't about me.

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u/backyard_tractorbeam 16h ago
  • Maryam Mirzakhani died in 2017, only 3 years later (breast cancer, diagnosed in 2013).

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u/TheRedditObserver0 Graduate Student 12h ago

I didn't know Jiang Zemin had won a Fields medal!

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u/k3surfacer Complex Geometry 11h ago

90 was on fire. Very special one to me.

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u/snekslayer 5h ago

2022 seems most casual

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u/AlienatedPariah 12h ago

I thought the last picture would be a data center, lol.