Fields Medals

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At the 1924 International Congress of Mathematicians in Toronto, a resolution was adopted that at each ICM, two gold medals should be awarded to recognize outstanding mathematical achievement. 

Professor J. D. Fields, a Canadian mathematician who was secretary of the 1924 Congress, later donated funds establishing the medals which were named in his honor. Consistent with Fields's wish that the awards recognize both existing work and the promise of future achievement, it was agreed to restrict the medals to mathematicians not over forty at the year of the Congress. In 1966 it was agreed that, in light of the great expansion of mathematical research, up to four medals could be awarded at each Congress.

For more details about the origins of the Fields Medal we recommend the article:

Henry S. Tropp, "The Origins and History of the Fields Medal", Historia Mathematica 3 (1976) 167-181.

Fields Medals awarded:

1936

Lars Valerian AHLFORS

Jesse DOUGLAS

1950

Laurent SCHWARTZ

Atle SELBERG

1954

Kunihiko KODAIRA

Jean-Pierre SERRE

1958

Klaus Friedrich ROTH

René THOM

1962

Lars HÖRMANDER

John Willard MILNOR

1966

Michael Francis ATIYAH

Paul Joseph COHEN

Alexander GROTHENDIECK

Stephen SMALE

1970

Alan BAKER

Heisuke HIRONAKA

Serge NOVIKOV

John Griggs THOMPSON

1974

Enrico BOMBIERI

David Bryant MUMFORD

1978

Pierre René DELIGNE

Charles Louis FEFFERMAN

Gregori Alexandrovitch MARGULIS

Daniel G. QUILLEN

1982

Alain CONNES

William P. THURSTON

Shing-Tung YAU

1986

Simon K. DONALDSON

Gerd FALTINGS

Michael H. FREEDMAN

1990

Vladimir DRINFELD

Vaughan F.R. JONES

Shigefumi MORI

Edward WITTEN

1994

Jean BOURGAIN

Pierre-Louis LIONS

Jean-Christophe YOCCOZ

Efim ZELMANOV

1998

Richard E. Borcherds

W. Timothy Gowers

Maxim Kontsevich

Curtis T. McMullen

Andrew J. Wiles (Special Tribute)

2002

Andrei Okounkov
Grigori Perelman (declinó aceptar la Medalla Fields: ver otro enlace )
Terence Tao
Wendelin Werner

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