Ukrainian Maryna Viazovska was also a medalist and becomes the second woman to receive this prestigious honor since the award was created in 1936.
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Four mathematicians received, Tuesday, July 5 in Helsinki (Finland), the Fields medal, including the Frenchman Hugo Duminil-Copin. LUkrainian Maryna Viazovska was also a medalist and becomes the second woman to receive this prestigious honor since the award was created in 1936.
The other two winners of this award, issued every four years, considered the equivalent of a “Mathematics Nobel”, are the US-based researcher June Huh and the Briton James Maynard. The medal celebrates the “exceptional discoveries” researchers under the age of 40.
“L“probabilistic theory of phase transitions”
Hugo Duminil-Copin, 36, devotes his work to the mathematical branch of statistical physics. Appointed professor at the age of 29, the probabilistic mathematician divides his time between the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, near Paris, and the University of Geneva.
He was rewarded for solving several “long-standing problems in the probabilistic theory of phase transitions”which made it possible to open “several new directions of research”according to the jury.