Fields is a Canadian mathematician. During 1924, the International Congress of Mathematicians was held in Toronto, Canada. Fields is the organizer of the meeting. He proposed to set up a math prize, using the remaining funds of the conference as a fund. 1932, Fields died. In the same year, the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Zurich accepted Fields' initiative. 1936, the International Congress of Mathematicians was held in Oslo and the Fields Prize was awarded for the first time.
The International Congress of Mathematicians is held every four years 1 time. At every congress, the Fields Medal is awarded to those who have made outstanding contributions in the field of mathematics, usually 2 to 4 people at a time. According to Fields' initiative, we should not only reward the achievements we have made, but also encourage the winners to make further achievements. This means that medals can only be awarded to younger mathematicians. So far, * * * has won 24 awards, all under 40. This is not the same as the Nobel Prize.
The latest international congress of mathematicians was held in Helsinki, Finland on 1978. French Deligne (34 years old), American Feverman (29 years old), Kuilin (38 years old) and the Soviet Union's Marygues (32 years old) won the prize. Marygues was ignored in the Soviet Union, and the government refused to let him attend international conferences. When Helsinki Conference announced that the Marigus Fields Prize had been awarded in absentia, the audience stood up and applauded.
1982 announced the winners: French Kone, American Saiston and China Qiu Chengtong. Qiu Chengtong is the first person from China to win this honor. 1949 was born in Guangdong, then went to Hong Kong, and received his doctorate from the University of California. He is now a professor at Princeton Institute.