ICM announces 2018 Fields Medal winners in Rio

International Mathematical Union committee appoints Fields Medal and Nevalinna Prize committees.

International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) announces winners of the 2018 Fields Medal. This year Caucher Birkar, Akshay Venkatesh, Peter Scholze and Alessio Figalli grabbed the award.

Fields award also known as the International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, set to distribute in between two to four mathematicians for their outstanding or seminal research in the area of Mathematics.

International Mathematical Union committee appoints Fields Medal and Nevalinna Prize committees.

Mathematicians under the age of 40 lift the award rather than more senior scholars. And the award is equivalent of the Nobel Prize.

The winners | Researchers from Germany, India, Iran and Italy take home the 2018 Fields Medal► https://t.co/7NbpPni7LI pic.twitter.com/otv0LGD2oD

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A professor of mathematics at the University of Toronto, John Charles Fields organizer and president of the 1924 International Congress of Mathematicians in Toronto raised the surplus funds for the award.

Fields Award goes to those who have made contributions that opened up whole fields of ideas for the development of highly abstract and integrative fields such as algebraic geometry and algebraic topology.