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News: The International Mathematical Union announced the 2026 Fields Medal winners at the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Philadelphia on July 23.
About Fields Medal 2026
- The Fields Medal is awarded to recognize outstanding mathematical achievement for existing work and for the promise of future achievement.
- Awarded by: The fields medals are awarded by the International Mathematical Union (IMU).
- Funded by: It is funded by a trust established by J.C. Fields at the University of Toronto.
- Origin: The Fields Medal was first awarded in 1936.
- Frequency: It has been awarded every four years since 1950.
- Nobel Prize of Mathematics: It is regarded as the highest professional recognition in mathematics and is considered equivalent to the Nobel Prize.
- Eligibity: Only mathematicians below 40 years of age are eligible.
- Prize: Each winner receives a gold medal and 15,000 Canadian dollars.
- Key Winners of the 2026 Fields Medal:
- Yu Deng (University of Chicago):
- Yu Deng received the Fields Medal for his work in partial differential equations and mathematical physics.
- He established rigorous mathematical foundations for the Boltzmann equation, wave kinetic equations, and probabilistic approaches to nonlinear Schrödinger dynamics.
- Hong Wang (New York University and Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies, France):
- Hong Wang was recognized for major breakthroughs in harmonic analysis and geometric measure theory.
- Her work advanced the local smoothing conjecture, Fourier restriction, the Kakeya problem, Falconer distance sets, and Furstenberg sets.
- She is the third woman to ever win the Fields Medal in its 90-year history.
- Jacob Tsimerman (University of Toronto):
- Jacob Tsimerman received the medal for developing o-minimality as a fundamental method in arithmetic and complex algebraic geometry.
- He also contributed to the proof of major conjectures, including the Griffiths conjecture and the André-Oort conjecture.
- John Pardon (Stony Brook University):
- John Pardon was honoured for his contributions to symplectic geometry, geometry, and topology.
- He introduced new approaches to virtual fundamental cycles and made significant advances in knot theory and group actions on three-manifolds.
- Yu Deng (University of Chicago):
