Ukrainian mathematician awarded prestigious Fields Medal
Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska was named Tuesday as one in every of 4 recipients of the distinguished Fields Medal, which is commonly described a the Nobel Prize in arithmetic.
The International Mathematical Union stated Viazovska, who holds the chair in quantity principle on the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, was being honored for her work on the densest packing of an identical spheres in eight dimensions.
The different winners have been French mathematician Hugo Duminil-Copin of the University of Geneva; Korean-American mathematician June Huh of Princeton; and British mathematician James Maynard of the University of Oxford.
The Fields Medal is awarded each 4 years to mathematicians beneath age 40. The recipients are usually introduced on the International Congress of Mathematicians, which was initially as a result of be held in Russia this 12 months however moved to Helsinki as a substitute.
“The ongoing barbaric war that Russia still continues to wage against Ukraine clearly shows that no other alternative was feasible,” the president of the International Mathematical Union, Carlos E. Kenig, stated.
