Two Chinese Win Fields Medal at ICM 2026
At the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia, four young mathematicians—Yu Deng, Jacob Tsimerman, John Pardon, and Hong Wang—were awarded the Fields Medal, with Deng and Wang becoming the first Chinese laureates and Wang the third woman to win the prize. All four recipients are under 40 and affiliated with North American universities, marking a historic milestone for Chinese descent representation in the award.
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About Jacob Tsimerman
Jacob Tsimerman is a Soviet-born Canadian mathematician at the University of Toronto specialising in arithmetic geometry, algebraic geometry, and related areas. He was awarded the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in the year 2015 in recognition for his work on the André–Oort conjecture and for his work in both analytic number theory and algebraic geometry. In 2026, he received the Fields Medal for his work on O-minimality, Griffiths' conjecture, and the André–Oort conjecture.
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- April 26, 1988