2026 Fields Medal goes to four young mathematicians, two of them from China
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He later moved to the U.S., earning his bachelor's degree at MIT and his doctorate at Princeton University.Pardon, 37, is a professor at Stony Brook University in the U.S. He was honored for his achievements in symplectic geometry, including new approaches to virtual fundamental cycles, the Fukaya categories of certain manifolds, and the counting of holomorphic curves. He has also contributed to other areas of geometry and topology, including group actions on 3-manifolds and knot theory.Pardon took gold medals at the International Olympiad in Informatics three years running from 2005 to 2007.
- ▪He later moved to the U.S., earning his bachelor's degree at MIT and his doctorate at Princeton University.Pardon, 37, is a professor at Stony Brook University in the U.S.
- ▪He was honored for his achievements in symplectic geometry, including new approaches to virtual fundamental cycles, the Fukaya categories of certain manifolds, and the counting of holomorphic curves.
- ▪He has also contributed to other areas of geometry and topology, including group actions on 3-manifolds and knot theory.Pardon took gold medals at the International Olympiad in Informatics three years running from 2005 to 2007.
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The 2026 Fields Medal, regarded as the Nobel Prize of mathematics, was awarded to Yu Deng, Jacob Tsimerman, John Pardon and Hong Wang, it was announced at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) on July 23.It is the first time two mathematicians of Chinese descent have won the medal simultaneously, and the third time a woman has been honored.All four winners work in North America. (From L) A screenshot from Simons Foundation's YouTube livestream shows Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman, and Wang Hong receiving the 2026 Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, U.S., July 23, 2026.
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