Overview
- The International Mathematical Union announced the four winners at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia, which named them on Thursday, recognizing Hong Wang, Yu Deng, Jacob Tsimerman and John Pardon.
- Hong Wang was cited for major advances in harmonic analysis and geometric measure theory, including progress on the three-dimensional Kakeya problem, and she becomes only the third woman to receive the Fields Medal.
- Yu Deng won for work on partial differential equations that gave a rigorous derivation of the Boltzmann equation, which connects microscopic particle dynamics to the macroscopic behavior of gases.
- Jacob Tsimerman was honored for breakthroughs in arithmetic and complex algebraic geometry that advanced conjectures such as Griffiths and André–Oort, and John Pardon for foundational results in symplectic geometry and low-dimensional topology.
- The prize, awarded every four years to up to four researchers under 40 and carrying a gold medallion and 15,000 Canadian dollars, signals both the fields the IMU views as leading and possible wider impacts on physics and applied theory through the winners’ work.