Ukraine's Maryna Viazovska is only the second woman to be awarded the prestigious Fields Medal in its 80-year history.
Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska has been named as one of four recipients of the prestigious Fields Medal, which is often described a the Nobel Prize in mathematics.Fields Medals were first awarded in 1936 and are today regarded as equivalents of the Nobel PrizeShe is the first woman to win the prize since the late Maryam Mirzakhani in 2014
Ms Viazovska, 37, is only the second woman to win the prize in its over 80-year history, the International Mathematical Union jury said on Tuesday. France's Hugo Duminil-Copin, US-based June Huh and Britain's James Maynard were also awarded the medals at the ceremony in Helsinki, Finland. The ceremony was part of the International Congress of Mathematicians, which was initially scheduled to be held in Saint Petersburg but was moved online due to the war in Ukraine.Ms Viazovska was born in 1984 in Ukraine, then still part of the Soviet Union, and has been a professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland since 2017.
She was awarded for her work in sphere packing — a problem first posed by German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler nearly 400 years ago.
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