Ukrainian Women Becomes 2nd Person To Win Noble of Mathematics

The Fields Medals were given to James Maynard from Britain, Hugo Duminil-Copin from France, June Huh, a US citizen, and Maryna Viazovska, a Ukrainian.

Ukrainian Women Win “Noble of Mathematics”

According to the International Mathematical Union panel, four mathematicians—including Ukrainian Maryna Viazovska—were given renowned Fields awards on Tuesday.
At a ceremony in Helsinki, the medals were also given to Hugo Duminil-Copin of France, June Huh, who is based in the US, and James Maynard of the United Kingdom.

The Fields medal, also referred to as the Nobel Prize in mathematics, is given every four years to a person under the age of 40 who has demonstrated “great mathematical achievement.”

Only two women have ever won the award in its more than 80-year existence, and both were Viazovska.

The International Congress of Mathematicians, which was originally slated to take place in Saint Petersburg but was shifted online owing to the conflict in Ukraine, included the ceremony.

Finland hosted the ceremony to present the prizes.

Since 2017, Viazovska has had a position as a professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Viazovska was born in Ukraine in 1984, which was still a part of the Soviet Union at the time.

She won the award for finding the densest packing of identical spheres in eight dimensions by solving a variation of a centuries-old mathematical puzzle.

The “spherical packing problem” has its roots in the 16th century, when it was debated how to stack cannonballs for the densest feasible result.

Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian-born mathematician who received the award for the first time in 2014, passed away in 2017 after a fight with cancer.

Professor Duminil-Copin, who was born in France in 1985, specializes in statistical physics’ mathematical subfield and teaches at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques.

Duminil-Copin was recognized for “long-standing problems in the probabilistic theory of phase transitions,” which, in the opinion of the jury, has opened up various new research areas, according to Carlos Kenig, President of the International Mathematical Union.

Professor Maynard, 35, of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, was given the award “for contributions to analytical number theory, which have significantly advanced our understanding of the structure of prime numbers and of the Diophantine approximation,” according to Kenig.

The union said in a statement that “His work is extraordinarily inventive, frequently resulting to unanticipated discoveries on significant problems that looked unattainable by present methodologies.”

The jury stated that June Huh, a professor at Princeton University in the United States, “transformed” the discipline of geometric combinatorics by using techniques from Hodge theory, tropical geometry, and singularity theory.

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