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Fields Medal win: Wang Hong, Deng Yu are first Chinese nationals to score top maths honour

For the first time, China has produced Fields Medal winners educated on its own soil – and two at once. Chinese mathematicians Wang Hong and Deng Yu took the honour, alongside John...

China’s Fields Medals triumph raises bigger math questions

When Hong Wang and Yu Deng received Fields Medals at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia on July 23, they became the first citizens of the People’s Republi...

Chinese-Born Fields Medal Winners Reignite Debate Over China’s Research System

Two Chinese-origin mathematicians, Hong Wang and Yu Deng, became the first pair of mathematicians of Chinese heritage to jointly receive the Fields Medal, widely regarded as the “N...

Fields Medallists highlight new wave of Chinese scientists leading global research

Two Peking University alumni made history by winning the Fields Medal this week, a victory spotlighting a broader wave of young high-achieving Chinese scientists rising to global p...

2026 Fields Medal goes to four young mathematicians, two of them from China

Four mathematicians received the Fields Medal on July 23, two of them raised in China, a first in the prize's history.

Confucius and ancient warlords turn up in world's biggest International Math Olympiad ever

Contestants at the International Mathematical Olympiad in Shanghai, the largest edition in the competition's 67-year history, opened their first paper on July 15 to find Confucius,...

Hong Wang Twirls in Fractal Dimensions of Three

The young mathematician won a prestigious Fields Medal for her work on the so-called Kakeya conjecture.

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2026 Fields Medal laureate Yu Deng on cracking century-old mathematical problem

Yu Deng, a winner of the 2026 Fields Medal, said that there were virtually no reference materials available for the problem he was trying to solve, forcing him to develop the neces...

Why Wang Hong’s Fields Medal Has Sparked Debate Over Peking University’s Role

Recently, the news that Chinese-born scholars Wang Hong and Deng Yu, who teach in Europe and the United States, received the Fields Medal, the highest honor in international mathem...

Chinese doctor stuns maths world by cracking decades-old problem using ChatGPT

When Beijing-based neurosurgeon Jin Shanmu pulled up a chair at his computer, he was not looking to make mathematical history. He was simply trying to crack a problem related to br...

Yu Deng '11 and Hong Wang PhD '19 awarded Fields Medal

MIT alumni Yu Deng '11 and Hong Wang PhD '19 were among the four young mathematicians awarded Fields Medals on July 23 at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM...

Yu Deng Predicts the Actions of the Whole From Its Tiniest Parts

Dr. Deng, a mathematics professor at the University of Chicago, received a Fields Medal for his work on an equation describing fluid mechanics.

Three countries are claiming credit for the first Chinese woman winning Fields Medal

A debate has broken out in China over which country deserves credit for producing Hong Wang, who on July 23 became the third woman to win the Fields Medal, the world's most prestig...

Shenzhen-based AI mathematician Yurii Nesterov wins top prize in applied maths

When Russian-born Belgian mathematician Yurii Nesterov reached retirement age in 2023, he found himself at the centre of a technological storm. The accelerated gradient algorithm h...

Big Math Achievement By AI – Resolves 87 Year Old Problem

A PHD in math disproved an 87 year old math problem with about two hours of working with Anthropic Fable. The Jacobian conjecture (JC) has been disproved in dimension 3 (and thus a...

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Jacob Tsimerman Lives in Number Theory

Dr. Tsimerman won one of four Fields Medals, an award for top mathematicians under 40, for his work on the André-Oort conjecture, but is now changing his focus to artificial intell...

AI and human ingenuity may be bringing a new golden age of math

In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major unsolved problem called the “unit distance conjecture” h...

In a first, Chinese woman wins the prestigious Fields Medal

Despite criticisms of a brain drain from China to the U.S., the awards come at a time when several high-profile Chinese scholars have returned home, some citing an increasingly hos...

Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers

A 23-year-old student overturned an ancient conjecture about one of math’s simplest operations

Mathematicians make a breakthrough on Gauss’s riddle, unsolved for 200 years

A solution to part of the Cohen-Lenstra conjecture helps resolve a long-standing mystery about quadratic forms

Scalpers snap up local paper after profile on Fields winner Wang Hong goes viral

Copies of the official paper of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Committee of the Communist Party of China are not usually a hot commodity. But the Saturday edition of Guangxi...

Mathematicians grapple with a ‘very rapid and very unsettling change’ as AI cracks yet another century-old problem

Anthropic's Levant Alpöge, a former Harvard valedictorian, used Claude's Fable 5 to find something that mathematicians have failed to since 1939.