Fields Medal: Frenchman Hugo Duminil-Copin rewarded

He is a French mathematical genius, passionate about matches and probability. Hugo Duminil-Copin won the medal Fields, Tuesday, July 5. VSlike Thirteen French people have won this prestigious award. He is notably the author of theorems that he created himself. To combine his passion and his profession, the mathematician gives courses in probability in Paris and in Switzerland, in Geneva. His goal is to make everything understandable, as one of his students describes it: “There are a lot of interactions, he asks us ‘and there, what do you think it is?‘.”

For Hugo Duminil-Copinmathematics is imagined in strolling through the streets. The career of this genius mathematicianwas yet not directly devoted to probabilities. His parents are teachers, dance for his mother and sports for his father. Hugo could have become a cosmonaut or a firefighter as he dreamed of when he was young. He explains his passion with these words: “The maths is appreciated at all levels, it’s this process of reflection, of playing with numbers, with concepts, with shapes.”