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Fields Medals 2018

fields.pngThe Fields Medal is awarded to recognize outstanding mathematical achievement for existing work and for the promise of future achievement.
The medals and cash prizes are funded by a trust established by J.C.Fields at the University of Toronto, which has been supplemented periodically, but is still significantly underfunded.  The discrepancy in 2018 was made up by the University of Toronto and the Fields Institute.

Caucher Birkar
Copyright © Caucher Birkar

Caucher Birkar

For the proof of the boundedness of Fano varieties and for contributions to the minimal model program.

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Alessio Figalli
Copyright © ETH Zürich / Giulia Marthaler

Alessio Figalli

For contributions to the theory of optimal transport and its applications in partial differential equations, metric geometry and probability.

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Peter Scholze
Copyright © Tatjana Ruf, Oberwolfach

Peter Scholze

For transforming arithmetic algebraic geometry over p-adic fields through his introduction of perfectoid spaces, with application to Galois representations, and for the development of new cohomology theories.

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Akshay Venkatesh
Copyright © Rod Searcey

Akshay Venkatesh

For his synthesis of analytic number theory, homogeneous dynamics, topology, and representation theory, which has resolved long-standing problems in areas such as the equidistribution of arithmetic objects.

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