2022 fields Award Announced! The first Korean Xu Long'er was on the list, and four post-80s women won the prize. Ukrainian female mathematicians became the only two women to win the prize in history

2022 The fields award was officially announced in Helsinki, Finland , share 4 A young mathematician won the Award . The list of winners includes the most popular Ukrainian female mathematician Viazovska, There is also a sudden rise of Xu long er , Become the first award-winning Korean mathematician .

They are ：

• Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska, This year, 38 year . She proved E8 Lattice provides 8 The densest accumulation of the same spheres in the dimension , And further promote the research of related extremum and interpolation in Fourier analysis .（ Combinatorial number theory ）

  

• Korean mathematician June Huh, This year, 39 year . He will be Hodge Theory introduces combinatorics , The success has proved how much Dowling–Wilson guess 、 Matroid Heron–Rota–Welsh guess 、 Johnson conjecture , And developed Lorentz polynomial theory .（ Combinatorial algebraic geometry ）

  

• British mathematician James Maynard, This year, 35 year . He made contributions to analytic number theory , And greatly promote the understanding of prime number structure and Diophantine approximation .（ Analytic number theory ）

  

• French mathematician Hugo Duminil-Copin, This year, 37 year , The research field mainly focuses on probability theory . He solved the long-standing theoretical problem of phase transition probability in Statistical Physics , Especially in three and four dimensions .（ probability theory ）

 

Reference material ：

https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2022

https://www.quantamagazine.org/

https://www.zhihu.com/question/541678705