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Maryna Viazovska Wins Fields Medal for Cracking Sphere-Packing Problem in 8D

The Wire Staff 06/07/2022

Viazovska – who hails from Ukraine – was joined...

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Maryam Mirzakhani’s Mathematical Legacy Lives On

Kirsi Goldynia 18/05/2019

The first woman to win a Fields Medal was...

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Karen Uhlenbeck Is First Woman to Win ‘Math’s Nobel’

Vasudevan Mukunth 21/03/2019

In the last 17 years, 19 men have won...

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Michael Atiyah, Mathematician Who Went Farther Than Most by the Light of Beauty

C.S. Aravinda, Bhāvanā Magazine 12/01/2019

He received the Fields Medal in 1966 and the...

Medal winners Akshay Venkatesh, Peter Scholze, Alessio Figalli and Caucher Birkar. Credit: International Congress of Mathematicians

Fields Medals Announced for Four Mathematicians

The Wire Staff 02/08/2018

The prize, bestowed every four years to mathematicians 40...

Maryam Mirzakhani. Credit: Stanford University

Maryam Mirzakhani, First Woman and Iranian to Win Fields Medal, Dies at 40

The Wire Staff 15/07/2017

She had dreamt of being a writer as a...

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India Has to Be its Own Cultural Ambassador, But it Has to Be Scientific About it: Manjul Bhargava

The Wire Staff 19/01/2016

Edited excerpts from a speech delivered by mathematician and...