Definition:Fields Medal/Recipients/1990
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Recipients of the Fields Medal
The recipients of the Fields Medal in $1990$ were as follows:
| Recipient(s) | Citation |
|---|---|
| Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfeld | Drinfeld's main preoccupation in the last decade [are] Langlands' program and quantum groups. In both domains, Drinfeld's work constituted a decisive breakthrough and prompted a wealth of research. |
| Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones | Jones discovered an astonishing relationship between von Neumann algebras and geometric topology. As a result, he found a new polynomial invariant for knots and links in 3-space. |
| Shigefumi Mori | The most profound and exciting development in algebraic geometry during the last decade or so was [...] Mori's Program in connection with the classification problems of algebraic varieties of dimension three. Early in 1979, Mori brought to algebraic geometry a completely new excitement, that was his proof of Hartshorne's conjecture. |
| Edward Witten | Time and again he has surprised the mathematical community by a brilliant application of physical insight leading to new and deep mathematical theorems. |
Location of conference: Kyoto, Japan
Sources
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Appendix $17$: Fields Medal winners
- 2021: Richard Earl and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (6th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Appendix $22$: Fields Medal winners