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In mathematics, the Fields Medal is awarded to Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman and Hong Wang. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Spoken News. I'm a computer. In mathematics, the
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  Field's Medal is awarded to Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Sieimerman,
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  and Hong Wang. Jacob Zimerman is a Soviet born Canadian
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  mathematician at the University of Toronto, specializing in number theory
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  and related areas. He was awarded the Sastra Ramanusian Prize
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  in the year twenty fifteen in recognition for his work
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  on the andre Ort conjecture and for his work in
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  both analytic number theory and algebraic geometry. In twenty twenty six,
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  he received the Field's Medal for his work on oh minimality,
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  Griffiths conjecture, and the andre Orc conjecture. John Vincent Parden
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  is an American mathematician who works on geometry and topology.
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  He is primarily known for having solved Gromov's problem on
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  distortion of knots, for which he received the twenty twelve
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  Morgan Prize. He is a permanent member of the Simons
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  Center for Geometry and Physics in Stony Brook, New York.
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  He was awarded the Field's Medal in twenty twenty six.
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  Hong Wang is a Chinese mathematician known for her research
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  in Fourier analysis and geometric measure theory. She was awarded
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  the Meriam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize in twenty twenty two,
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  the Salem Prize in twenty twenty five, and the Fields
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  Medal in twenty twenty six. Yudng is a Chinese mathematician
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  and a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago.
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  He is known for his contributions to partial differential equations,
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  fluid dynamics, and probabilistic analysis. He was awarded the Fields
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  Medal in twenty twenty six for his derivation of the
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  Boltzmann equation, his derivation of wave kinetic equations from nonlinear
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  dispersive systems, and his development of probabilistic approaches to nonlinear dynamics.
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  The Field's Medal is a prize awarded to two, three
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  or four mathematicians under forty years of age at the
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  International Congress of the Internet National Mathematical Union, a convention
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  which takes place every four years. The name of the
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  award honors the Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields. Its purpose
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  is to give recognition and support to younger mathematical researchers
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  who have made major contributions to the field of mathematics.
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  The Field's Medal is regarded as one of the highest
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  honors a mathematician can receive, according to the annual Academic
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  Excellence Survey by ARWU, and has been described as the
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  Nobel Prize of mathematics in another reputation survey conducted by
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  IRIG in twenty thirteen twenty fourteen, the Field's Medal came
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  closely after the Abel Prize as the second most prestigious
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  international award in mathematics. The medal was first awarded in
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  nineteen thirty six to Finish mathematician Lars all Fours and
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  American mathematician Jesse Douglas, and it has been awarded every
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  four years since nineteen fifty. In twenty fourteen, the Iranian
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  mathematician Mariam Mirzakhani became the first female Fields Medalist. With
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  the exception of two PhD holders in physics, only people
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  with a pH d in mathematics have won the medal.
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  In total, sixty eight people have been awarded the Fields
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  Medal as of twenty twenty six. The most recent group
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  of Fields medalists received their awards on the twenty third
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  of July twenty twenty six in Philadelphia. Fields was instrumental
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  in establishing the award, designing the medal himself, and funding
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  the monetary component, though he died before it was established
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  and his plan was overseen by John Layton Sings. The
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  prize includes a monetary award, which since two thousand and
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  six has been fifteen thousand Canadian dollars. That's it for now.
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