The Fields Medal, officially known as the International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is an award granted to two, three, or four

The mathematician Artur Avila, 35, received the Fields Medal, popularly known as the "Nobel Prize in Mathematics".

Kicking off the International Congress of Mathematicians 2018 in Rio de Janeiro was this year’s Fields Medal awards ceremony, celebrating the brightest young minds in mathematics. The prize is awarded every four years to up to four mathematicians under the age of 40, and is viewed as one of the highest honours a mathematician can receive.

Working on the centuries-old twin primes conjecture, two solitary researchers and a massive collaboration have made enormous advances over the last six months.

Details of the portrait of Maryam Mirzakhani by Alimohammad Parvaresh. Medium: Colored pencil & watercolor. Diameter of the medal in painting: 4.5 cm - Summer 2021

Maryam Mirzakhani: First Woman awarded the Fields Medal ― “Nobel Prize for Mathematics”. “Maryam was a brilliant mathematical theorist, and also a humble person who accepted honors only with the hope that it might encourage others to follow her path. Her contributions as both a scholar and a role model are significant and enduring, and she will be dearly missed here at Stanford and around the world.” Gone too soon at age 40.

A Ukrainian-born professor who studies how to pack spheres into many dimensions is among the winners of the major math award.

June Huh wasn’t interested in mathematics until a chance encounter during his sixth year of college. Now his profound insights connecting combinatorics and geometry have led to math’s highest honor.