Fields Medal, University of Chicago mathematics
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The Fields Medal, known as the Nobel Prize of mathematics, was awarded Thursday to four people—two Chinese citizens, one American and one Canadian.
Fields Medal 2026 winners appear to have been leaked when a front-end coding error on the ICM 2026 website let anyone extract hidden records naming Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman, and Hong Wang — four mathematicians who each resolved a problem open for between 30 and 125 years — days before Thursday's ceremony in Philadelphia.