Fields Prize is an international mathematics prize established at the request of Canadian mathematician john charles fields. It was first awarded in 1936 and is usually regarded as the Nobel Prize in mathematics.

The Fields Prize is awarded every four years, and the awarding ceremony is held at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) every four years? Awarded to two or four young mathematicians with outstanding contributions at a time? . 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 (CAD) and a gold medal.

By the end of 20 17, * * two mathematicians from China had won the Fields Prize, namely Qiu Chengtong, the mathematician who won the prize in 1982, and Tao Zhexuan, the mathematician who won the prize in 2006.

According to relevant statistics, as of 20 17, the winners of Fields Medal (alumni, professors, official researchers, etc. ) Harvard University ranks first in the world (18)? University of Paris (16), Paris Teachers College (14), Princeton University (14) and University of California, Berkeley (13) rank second to fifth in the world.