International Congress of Mathematicians

Fields Medals 2026

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The 2026 Fields Medals were presented on July 23 at the opening of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia. The four medalists are Hong Wang, who cracked the Kakeya conjecture in three dimensions; Yu Deng, who derived the Boltzmann equation; John Pardon, for symplectic geometry; and Jacob Tsimerman, who brought logic to bear on number theory. The IMU's other prizes went to Shayan Oveis Gharan, Graeme Segal, Yurii Nesterov and Hannah Fry.