Fields Prize (full name: International Prize for Outstanding Discovery in Mathematics) is an award presented at the International Mathematicians Congress of the International Mathematical Union. It awards prizes to two or four young mathematicians who have made outstanding contributions every four years. The champion must be under 40 years old before New Year's Day of that year. The Fields Prize was established at the request of Canadian mathematician john charles fields, and is regarded as the Nobel Prize in the field of mathematics (there is no mathematics prize in the Nobel Prize). The first mathematician in China who won the Fields Prize was Qiu Chengtong.
According to relevant statistics, the winners of the Fields Medal (alumni, professors and staff, etc. ) Harvard University (18), Paris University (16), Paris Teachers College (15), Princeton University (14) and University of California, Berkeley (14).