Fields Medal, an international mathematics prize established at the request of Canadian mathematician john charles fields, was first awarded in 1936, and is usually regarded as the Nobel Prize in mathematics (the Nobel Prize itself has no mathematics prize).
The Fields Prize is awarded every four years, and an award ceremony is held at the quadrennial international congress of mathematicians sponsored by the International Mathematical Union. Each time, it is awarded to two or four young mathematicians who have made outstanding contributions. Winners must be under 40 years old before New Year's Day of that year, and each person will receive a bonus of15,000 Canadian dollars and a gold medal.
In the Nobel Prize, there are only five categories (physics, chemistry, biology or medicine, literature and peace) (1968 adds the economics prize), but there is no share of mathematics, which makes mathematics, an important discipline, lose the opportunity to evaluate its great achievements and commend its outstanding figures in the world. It is against this background that two international mathematics prizes have been established internationally.
One is the Fields Prize awarded by the International Union of Mathematicians at the international congress of mathematicians every four years; One is the annual Abel Prize established by the Norwegian government. The gold content, internationality and honor of these two mathematics prizes are no less than the Nobel Prize, so they are called "Nobel Prizes in Mathematics" by the world.
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Fields' award-winning mathematicians are:
I. Qiu Chengtong
Qiu Chengtong, originally from Jiaoling County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, 1949, was born in Shantou, Guangdong Province. In the same year, he moved to Hong Kong with his parents. He is a Chinese-American, an internationally renowned mathematician and the first Chinese winner of the Fields Prize.
Academician of National Academy of Sciences, American College of Arts and Sciences, Academia Sinica and China Academy of Sciences [5]? . At present, he is Professor Bowen of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Professor William Casper Graustein of Harvard University and Director of the Center for Mathematical Sciences in Qiu Chengtong, Tsinghua University.
Second, Tao Zhexuan.
Tao Zhexuan, male, was born in July 1975, a mathematician in China, and teaches in the Department of Mathematics at UCLA. Tao Zhexuan is the first Australian to win the Fields Medal, and the second China after Qiu Chengtong 1982.
Third, Jesse Douglas.
Jesse Douglas (1July 3, 897-1September 7, 965), an American mathematician, was born in New York State and studied at Columbia University from 1920 to 1924.
He was one of the two winners of the first Fields Prize in 1936 for solving the Prato problem in 1930. Prato's question is whether there is a minimum surface for a given boundary. This is a variational problem, also called soap bubble problem, which was put forward by Lagrange in 1760. Douglas also made outstanding contributions to the inverse problem of variational method. The American Mathematical Society awarded him the Bosch Memorial Award on 1943.
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