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 the awarding ceremony is held at the quadrennial International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) sponsored by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). Every time it is awarded to two or four young mathematicians who have made outstanding contributions. [1][2] The winner 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 (CAD) and a gold medal.

By the end of 20 18, 60 mathematicians around the world had won the Fields Prize, two of them were mathematicians from China, namely Qiu Chengtong who won the prize in 1982 and Tao Zhexuan who won the prize in 2006.

According to relevant statistics, by the end of 2065,438+08, the number of Fields Prize winners (alumni, professors and official researchers, etc. Harvard University (18) ranks first in the world, Paris University (16) ranks second in the world, Princeton University (15) ranks third in the world, and Paris.