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Fields medal

prize awarded every four years to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union
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Summary

Fields medal is a mathematics award[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of mathematics award entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (24,192 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Winner: Manjul Bhargava[3], Grigori Perelman[4], Wendelin Werner[5], René Thom[6], Maryam Mirzakhani[7], Heisuke Hironaka[8], Edward Witten[9], Shigefumi Mori[10], Michael Atiyah[11], Atle Selberg[12], Lars Ahlfors[13], Jean-Pierre Serre[14], Laurent Schwartz[15], John Milnor[16]
  • Instance of: science award[17]
  • Named after: John Charles Fields[18]
  • Location: Berlin-Mitte[19]
  • Commons category: Fields medal[20]
  • Review score: 0.95[21], 0.8[22], 3.2[23]
  • Inception: January 1, 1936[24]
  • Start time: 1936[25]
  • Official website: https://mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal[26]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Fields medal[27]
  • Conferred by: International Mathematical Union[28]
  • Native label: Fields Medal[29]
  • Different from: Field's metal[30]

Why It Matters

Fields medal has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 87 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

FAQs

What awards did Fields medal receive?

Honors received include Manjul Bhargava[3], Grigori Perelman[4], Wendelin Werner[5], and René Thom[6].

Related Entities

Akshay Venkatesh Alain Connes Alan Baker Alexander Grothendieck Andrei Okounkov Artur Ávila Atle Selberg Caucher Birkar Cédric Villani Charles Fefferman Curtis T. McMullen Daniel Quillen David Mumford Edward Witten Efim Zelmanov Elon Lindenstrauss Enrico Bombieri Gerd Faltings Grigori Perelman Grigory Margulis Heisuke Hironaka Jean Bourgain Jean-Christophe Yoccoz Jean-Pierre Serre Jesse Douglas John Charles Fields John G. Thompson John Milnor Klaus Roth Kunihiko Kodaira

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . gf.org. Retrieved . gf.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [21] ↑ . IREG List of Academic Awards. wikidata.org.
  6. [22] ↑ . list of prizes known as the Nobel or the highest honors of a field. wikidata.org.
  7. [23] ↑ . ICDA Official Awards Roster. wikidata.org.
  8. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  15. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [7] ↑ . australiangeographic.com.au. Retrieved . australiangeographic.com.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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