1. Fields Prize is awarded every four years. The award ceremony was held at the quadrennial International Congress of Mathematicians sponsored by the International Mathematical Federation. Each session will reward 2-4 young mathematicians who have made outstanding contributions. The winner must
Under the age of 40 before New Year's Day, everyone will receive a bonus of 15000 Canadian dollars and a gold medal.
2. By the end of 20 18, 60 mathematicians around the world had won prizes in this field, including two mathematicians in China, namely Qiu Chengtong, a mathematician who won the prize in 1982, and Tao Zhehuan, a mathematician who won the prize in 2006.
There are five categories of Nobel Prizes: physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace (the economics prize was added by 1968), but it does not involve the field of mathematics. In this context, there are two international mathematics prizes in the world: one is the Fields Prize, which is evaluated by the International Mathematical Union (IMU) and awarded at the quadrennial international congress of mathematicians; The other is the annual Abel Prize established by the Norwegian government. These two awards have high authority and influence, and have gradually developed into the highest international awards in the field of mathematics. Therefore, they are called "Nobel Prize in Mathematics".
2) Fields strongly advocates that the development of mathematics should be internationalized. In order to make mathematics in North America develop rapidly and catch up with Europe, he took the lead in promoting postgraduate education in Canada. When he learned that the International Congress of Mathematicians had a balance of funds, he had the idea of using it as a fund to set up an international mathematics prize. To this end, he actively went to Europe and the United States to seek extensive support, and planned to personally put forward suggestions at the ninth international congress of mathematicians held in Zurich on 1932, but unfortunately died before the opening of the congress. Fields made a will before his death and added his legacy to the above surplus funds, which was transferred from the Department of Mathematics of the University of Toronto to the Ninth International Congress of Mathematicians. The meeting immediately accepted the proposal. Fields originally demanded that the prize money should be named after "international prize money" instead of individuals, countries or institutions. However, in order to praise and remember Fields' foresight, organizational ability and his great spirit of selfless dedication to promoting international exchanges in mathematics, mathematicians attending the International Congress of Mathematicians unanimously agreed to award Fields Prize.