Definition:Fields Medal/Recipients/2018
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Recipients of the Fields Medal
The recipients of the Fields Medal in $2018$ were as follows:
| Recipient(s) | Citation |
|---|---|
| Caucher Birkar | For the proof of the boundedness of Fano varieties and for contributions to the minimal model program. |
| Alessio Figalli | For contributions to the theory of optimal transport and its applications in partial differential equations, metric geometry and probability. |
| Peter Scholze | For having transformed arithmetic algebraic geometry over p-adic fields. |
| 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. |
Location of conference: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sources
- 2021: Richard Earl and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (6th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Appendix $22$: Fields Medal winners