Tuesday, 17 January 2017

FIELD'S MEDAL

Hai friends. Today we are going to discuss about field's medal which is nothing but the highest award given in the field of mathematics. Everyone know that mathematicians doesn't have place in nobel prize. This is considered as Nobel prize of mathematicians and in contrast to it awarded it is awarded once in four years. It has another major restriction that the person need to be less than 40 years of age in 1st January  of that year.The monetary award is much lower than the 8,000,000 Swedish kronor (roughly 1,400,000 Canadian dollars).

It was started on the year of 1936 from then till now nearly 54 persons have been honored with this award. The last one was awarded in the year 2014.

Here comes the list of persons who got the medals with the places where they got and year.

2014
Seoul, South Korea
Artur Avila
Manjul Bhargava
Martin Hairer
Maryam Mirzakhani
2010
Hyderabad, India
Elon Lindenstrauss
Ngô Bảo Châu
Stanislav Smirnov
Cédric Villani
2006
Madrid, Spain
Andrei Okounkov
Grigori Perelman(declined)
Terence Tao
Wendelin Werner
2002
Beijing, China
Laurent Lafforgue
Vladimir Voevodsky
1998
Berlin, Germany
Richard Borcherds
Timothy Gowers
Maxim Kontsevich
Curtis T. McMullen
1994
Zurich, Switzerland
Jean Bourgain
Pierre-Louis Lions
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
Efim Zelmanov
1990
Kyoto, Japan
Vladimir Drinfeld
Vaughan F. R. Jones
Shigefumi Mori
Edward Witten
1986
Berkeley, US
Simon Donaldson
Gerd Faltings
Michael Freedman
1982
Warsaw, Poland
Alain Connes
William Thurston
Shing-Tung Yau
1978
Helsinki, Finland
Pierre Deligne
Charles Fefferman
Daniel Quillen
Grigori Margulis
1974
Vancouver, Canada
Enrico Bombieri
David Mumford
1970
Nice, France
Alan Baker
Heisuke Hironaka
John G. Thompson
Sergei Novikov
1966
Moscow, USSR
Michael Atiyah
Paul Joseph Cohen
Alexander Grothendieck
Stephen Smale
1962
Stockholm, Sweden
Lars Hörmander
John Milnor
1958
Edinburgh, UK
Klaus Roth
René Thom
1954
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kunihiko Kodaira
Jean-Pierre Serre
1950
Cambridge, US
Laurent Schwartz
Atle Selberg
1936
Oslo, Norway
Lars Ahlfors
Jesse Douglas


REFERENCE: Wikipedia

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