Fields Medal: Hong Wang makes history as star mathematicians claim 2026 honours
Wang and Deng are also the first Chinese nationals to win since Shing-Tung Yau in 1982. ‘It’s like writing a poem’: prize winner Rajula Srivastava on doing mathsYu DengDeng was born in 1989 in Henan province and grew up in Shenzhen. He won a gold medal at the 2006 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). Later, in 2010, he became a Putnam Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the U.S., where he obtained his BS in 2011.
- ▪Wang and Deng are also the first Chinese nationals to win since Shing-Tung Yau in 1982. ‘It’s like writing a poem’: prize winner Rajula Srivastava on doing mathsYu DengDeng was born in 1989 in Henan province and grew up in Shenzhen.
- ▪He won a gold medal at the 2006 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).
- ▪Later, in 2010, he became a Putnam Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the U.S., where he obtained his BS in 2011.
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The Fields Medal — one of the top honours in mathematics — for 2026 was awarded to Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman, and Hong Wang.The Medal is awarded every four years and recognises important contributions to mathematics research by people who are younger than 40 at the time they receive it.Of this year’s laureates, Wang has become the third woman to win the Medal in its 90-year history, after Maryam Mirzakhani (2014) and Maryna Viazovska (2022). Wang and Deng are also the first Chinese nationals to win since Shing-Tung Yau in 1982. ‘It’s like writing a poem’: prize winner Rajula Srivastava on doing mathsYu DengDeng was born in 1989 in Henan province and grew up in Shenzhen. He won a gold medal at the 2006 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).
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