61. 1932 1932 The fields medal A list of previous recipients of the fields medal is availableat http//www.fields.toronto.edu/medal.html . Author Clarence L. Terry. http://faculty.oxy.edu/jquinn/home/Math490/Timeline/1932AD.html

The Fields Medal John Charles Fields was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on May 14, 1863. Fields received his B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Toronto in 1884 and his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1887. He was later appointed Professor of Mathematics at Allegheny College from 1889 to 1892. After a period of study in Europe, during which he made associations with such noted mathematicians as Fuchs, Frobenius, Hensel, Schawrtz, and Planck, Fields was appointed special lecturer at the University of Toronto in 1902. He was later appointed as research professor in 1923 and remained at the university until the time of his death on August 9, 1932. During his mathematical career, John Charles Fields was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1907) and the Royal Society of London (1913). In addition, he served as the president of the 1924 International Congress of Mathematicians at Toronto. Fields' mathematical interests were in algebraic functions. Fields was probably the most significant research mathematician ever at the University of Toronto. The Thomas Fisher Rare Books Collection currently hold his papers. http://www.fields.toronto.edu/medal.html

62. News & Views - Two Mathematicians Awarded Fields Medal Prize (8/20/2002) Two Mathematicians Awarded fields medal Prize (8/20/2002). The prestigious FieldsMedal Prize is usually awarded at the opening ceremony of the ICM. http://www.chinahouston.org/news/2002820120423.html

Two Mathematicians Awarded Fields Medal Prize (8/20/2002) Franch's Laurent Lafforgue and Vladimir Voevododsky from Russia won the 2002 Fields Medal Prize at the opening ceremony of the 24th International Congress of Mathematicians. Chinese President Jiang Zemin awarded the Fields medalists together with Palles, the president of the International Mathematics Union. Madhu Sudam from the United Sates won the Nevanlinna Prize. The 24th International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), the first ever held in China, opened Tuesday in the Great Hall of the People. More than 2,000 foreign mathematicians and over 1,000 Chinese mathematicians attended this academic gathering, which is held every four years. Fields Medal Prize The Fields Medal Prize, regarded internationally as the most prestigious prize in the field of mathematics, is awarded to mathematicians under the age of 40. France's Laurent Lafforgue and Russia's Vladimir Voevododsky became the latest winners of the prize, at the opening ceremony ofthe 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) here Tuesday. The prize, named in honor of Professor John Charles Fields, a Canadian mathematician, was formally established at the 1932 ICM and first awarded at the 1936 ICM.

63. BrowserWise Search! Results 1 through 6 of 6 for fields medal Medals SoldierCity Purchasefrom a wide selection which includes official full-size http://www.browserwise.com/search/search.cgi?Terms=fields medal

64. Historia Matematica Mailing List Archive: [HM] Fields Medal Inscription HM fields medal Inscription. Len Berggren von Staudt ; Next in threadJulio Gonzalez Cabillon Re HM fields medal Inscription . http://sunsite.utk.edu/math_archives/.http/hypermail/historia/aug98/0084.html

[HM] Fields Medal Inscription Len Berggren berggren@sfu.ca Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:08:10 -0700 Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Next message: Ken Pledger: "Re: [HM] Karl Georg Christian von Staudt" Previous message: William Tait: "Re: [HM] Karl Georg Christian von Staudt" Next in thread: Julio Gonzalez Cabillon: "Re: [HM] Fields Medal Inscription" Today's press release concerning the awarding of the Fields Medals says that the Latin Inscription on the obverse, which translates as 'Rise above oneself and grasp the world', is due to Archimedes (whose head is represented along with the inscription). I have never heard of such a saying attributed to Archimedes and I wonder if any of you could enlighten me as to where this statement, attributed to Archimedes, appears in the classical literature. Len Berggren Simon Fraser University Department of Mathematics and Statistics Next message: Ken Pledger: "Re: [HM] Karl Georg Christian von Staudt" Previous message: William Tait: "Re: [HM] Karl Georg Christian von Staudt" Next in thread: Julio Gonzalez Cabillon: "Re: [HM] Fields Medal Inscription"

65. Historia Matematica Mailing List Archive: Re: [HM] Fields Medal Inscription Re HM fields medal Inscription. In reply to Len Berggren HM fields medal Inscription ;Next in thread AVINOAM MANN Re HM fields medal Inscription . http://sunsite.utk.edu/math_archives/.http/hypermail/historia/aug98/0086.html

Re: [HM] Fields Medal Inscription Julio Gonzalez Cabillon jgc@adinet.com.uy Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:55:38 -0300 Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Next message: Moshe' Machover: "[HM] Equivalence classes as objects" Previous message: Ken Pledger: "Re: [HM] Karl Georg Christian von Staudt" In reply to: Len Berggren: "[HM] Fields Medal Inscription" Next in thread: AVINOAM MANN: "Re: [HM] Fields Medal Inscription" Eberhard Knobloch fully describes the design of the Fields Medal at: http://elib.zib.de/IMU/medals/ Obverse: The head represents Archimedes facing right. (1) In the field is the word APXIMHDOYS in Greek capitals, and (2) the artist's monogram and date RTM, MCNXXXIII. (3) The inscription reads: TRANSIRE SUUM PECTUS MUNDOQUE POTIRI. The inscriptions mean: (1) "of Archimedes", namely the face of Archimedes. (2) R(obert) T(ait) M(cKenzie), that is the name of the Canadian sculptor who designed the medal. The correct date would read: "MCMXXXIII" or 1933. The second letter M has to be substituted

66. Home Page fields medals and Rolf Nevanlinna Prize Called the Nobel Prize in Mathematics, thefields medal was set up by funds donated by Professor JC Fields, a Canadian http://www.stanfordplus.com/education/prizes&awards/math.php

67. Two Cambridge Mathematicians Sweep The Field year. The fields medal is equivalent to the Nobel Prize, and is thehighest accolade for mathematics the world over. Presented once http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/pr/1998081801.html

News Press Centre Latest Press Releases Press Release Archive ... Contact Us Search News Two Cambridge Mathematicians sweep the Field International Maths Prizes come to Britons Cambridge University mathematicians have won two out of the four highly prestigious Fields Medals this year. The Fields Medal is equivalent to the Nobel Prize, and is the highest accolade for mathematics the world over. Presented once every four years by the International Mathematical Union, the results are announced in Berlin today, 18th August 1998, at the International Congress of Mathematicians. The two Cambridge mathematicians are Professor Richard Borcherds, a Royal Society Research Professor, and Professor Tim Gowers, the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics. Both of them are in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge and completed the Mathematical Tripos and their doctoral studies at Cambridge. A third medal winner, Professor C McMullen of Harvard University, studied Part II of the Mathematical Tripos in Cambridge in 1980-81.

68. Fields Medal¡G"Noble Prize For Mathematics" Email this news to Friends. fields medal Noble Prize for Mathematics ?. Xinhuanet 2002-10-31 113750. http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-10/31/conten

¿Õ¨©º¸¼ú±o¥D¯Ç¤°±Ð±Â»P²MµØ®v¥Í¹ï¸Ü Home China Flash World ... Arabic HomePage Favorites About us Related Stories Related Special Report Print E-mail this news to Friends Fields Medal¡G"Noble Prize for Mathematics" ¿Õ¨©º¸¼ú±o¥D¯Ç¤°±Ð±Â»P²MµØ®v¥Í¹ï¸Ü Xinhuanet 2002-10-31 11:37:50 Prof. Nash: I didn' t plan to say any words. I' m here as a visitor, but I was supposed about giving a lecture on Nash Equilibrium. I said that I didn' t want to do that because I' ve been a physician man evaluating my own work and my own contribution. This thing has to be left to history. So it' s like if a composer of present time were to attempt to give a statement indicating the absolute value compared his musical compositions with all others. And that' s not really quite proper. If his music lasts, maybe it is good. If it is soon forgotten, it wasn' t so good. So I' m not really going to talk about myself on that matter. MC: Anybody wants to ask Prof. Nash questions? I suppose you must have questions. Both mathematical and non-mathematical are fine. Have the Tsinghua spirit to ask questions. Yes, a lady. ¥D«ù¤H¡G¦³¤H·Q°Ý¯Ç¤°±Ð±Â°ÝD¶Ü¡H§Ú²q§A­Ì¤@©w¦³°ÝD­n°Ý¡A¼Æ¾Ç©M«D¼Æ¾Ç±M·~ªº°ÝD³£¥i¥H¡C½Ð´£°ÝD¡A®³¥X²MµØºë¯«¨Ó¡C¦n¡A³o¦ì¤k¤h¡C Q1: I want to know what do you think is the most important for a student who wants to be a mathematician?

69. Prizes And Awards In Mathematics - CIRS fields medal. The Fields science. Like the fields medal, it is traditionallyrestricted to young researchers, no older than 40. The http://www.cirs.net/awards/mathematics/InterMathUnionPrizes.htm

International Mathematical Union The Fields Medal The Rolf Nevanlinna Prize Fields Medal The Fields Medal is often described as "the Nobel prize for mathematics." Though there is no formal rule to this effect, Fields Medals have traditionally been presented to young mathematicians (no older than 40). The 2002 Fields Medals went to Laurent Lafforgue of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in Bures-sur-Yvette, France, honored for making major advances in the "Langlands Program," and to Vladimir Voevodsky of Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, USA, honored for developing a new cohomology theory for algebraic varieties. Rolf Nevanlinna Prize The Nevanlinna Prize has been awarded since 1982 by the International Mathematical Union. It recognizes exceptional work in the more mathematical aspects of computer science. Like the Fields Medal, it is traditionally restricted to young researchers, no older than 40. The prize is named for Rolf Nevanlinna, a past president of the IMU. The 2002 Nevanlinna Prize went to Madhu Sudan of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, in recognition of his work on "probabilistically checkable proofs, to non-approximability of optimization problems, and to error-correcting codes."

70. CERN Courier - Faces And Places - IOP Publishing Field theory, fields medal The 1998 award of the prestigious fields medal for Mathematicsreflects a continuing trend of mathematicians obtaining inspiration http://www.cerncourier.com/main/article/38/9/16

This Issue Back Issues Editorial Staff People Faces and Places More news from CERN and around the world of people and events of interest to the community. Ernst Mach Medal Britain at CERN Around VIRGO Charles Planner 1938-1998 Charles Planner, who joined the Rutherford Laboratory in 1961, died on 14 August after a two-year fight against cancer. Charles started his career in accelerators on the 15 MeV Linac Injector for the 7 GeV Proton Synchrotron Nimrod, where he developed his expertise in radiofrequency (rf) system design and beam theory. During his career he contributed to the design of many accelerators, including HERA at DESY, the ESRF at Grenoble, the TRIUMF Kaon Factory design and the European Spallation Source study. At Rutherford he was responsible for the rf system of the 70 MeV proton linac as a new injector for Nimrod. It is a tribute to its robust design that the repetition rate of this linac could be increased from 1 Hz to 50 Hz, with little change, when it was used as the ISIS injector. On ISIS he was responsible for the injection system, the elegant rf shields in the ring magnets, the optics of the extracted proton beam and the development of extraction kicker magnets. His novel approach to the manufacture of the large but very thin (0.25 micron) foils needed for beam injection into ISIS has been a major success and typifies his work. For the last few years he was group leader of the ISIS Linac and Radiofrequency Quadrupole linac (RFQ) Group concentrating on increasing the performance of the ISIS linac. His innovative and determined approach has led to developments in RFQ design codes and to the development of a beam-matching system between the ISIS ion source and the RFQ.

71. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Prize For 'big Picture' Mathematicians The fields medal the maths equivalent of the Nobel Prize - has beenawarded to mathematicians working on the big ideas of our time. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2205826.stm

CATEGORIES TV RADIO COMMUNICATE ... INDEX SEARCH You are in: Science/Nature News Front Page World UK ... Programmes SERVICES Daily E-mail News Ticker Mobile/PDAs Text Only ... Help EDITIONS Change to World Tuesday, 20 August, 2002, 17:27 GMT 18:27 UK Prize for 'big picture' mathematicians By Richard Black BBC Science Correspondent Mathematicians from France and the United States have been awarded the world's top maths prize, the Fields Medal. The medal is given every four years, and is regarded as the maths equivalent of the Nobel Prizes. Laurent Lafforgue and Vladimir Voevodsky won the medal for their work on some of the big current ideas in mathematics. Vladimir Voevodsky The prizes were handed out by Chinese President Jiang Zemin during the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing, the biggest annual gathering of mathematicians in the world. In the audience was John Nash, the genius whose life formed the basis of the Russell Crowe movie "A Beautiful Mind". Gold and glory The Fields Medal is named after John Fields, a Canadian mathematician who established the award in the 1930s.

72. University Of California, San Diego: External Relations: News & Information: New MEDALIST JOINS MATHEMATICS FACULTY AT UCSD Efim Zelmanov, a former Yale Universitymathematics professor and recipient of the fields medal, commonly known as http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/mczelmanov.htm

Getting Around Campus - Online Maps - VirtualVisit to UCSD - Visitor Parking - Campus Tours - UCSD Infopath Getting Around San Diego What's Happening - Calendar of Events - Academic Calendar - UC TV Online - Showcase Calendar - UC Newswire Points of Interest - Stuart Collection - Birch Aquarium - Preuss School - UCSD Bookstore - UCSD Libraries Publications - UCSD Annual Report - UCSD Catalog Joining In - Chancellor's Associates - - Scripps Oceanographic Society - Student Foundation - Support Groups Becoming A Student - Student Affairs Other News Web sites - Engineering - International Relations - Health Sciences - Scripps Institution of Oceanography News Releases Science News Releases October 28, 2002 Media Contact: Kim McDonald Photograph Credit: University of Nebraska Lincoln FIELDS MEDALIST JOINS MATHEMATICS FACULTY AT UCSD Efim Zelmanov, a former Yale University mathematics professor and recipient of the Fields Medal, commonly known as the Nobel Prize for mathematicians, has joined the faculty at the University of California, San Diego. The Annals of Mathematics, The Journal of Algebra and The Journal of the American Mathematical Society.

73. Fields Medals 2002 a CNRS chargé de recherche. He has been awarded the 2002 fields medalat age 35. Vladimir Voevodsky (Institute for Advanced Study http://www.cnrs.fr/cw/en/pres/compress/FieldsLafforgue.htm

Press release Fields Medals 2002 Paris, August 19, 2002 Various conjectures in the Langlands correspondence have been solved, but the recent contribution from Laurent Lafforgue is one of the most spectacular. For his demonstration, which he completed in 2000, Laurent Lafforgue built on the work of Ukrainian mathematician Vladimir Drinfeld (1990 Fields Medalist). Laurent Lafforgue joined the CNRS in 1990 at the Orsay "Laboratoire de mathématiques" (jointly-run CNRS and Université de Paris-Sud research laboratory). In 2000 he became a tenured professor at IHÉS. CNRS Press contact : Magali Sarazin Tel : +33 1 44 96 46 06 e-mail : magali.sarazin@cnrs-dir.fr IHES Press contact : Nathalie Levallois Tel : +33 1 60 92 66 67 e-mail : levallois@ihes.fr

74. Paths To Erdos Medicine 8 Sir John Carew Eccles 1963 Medicine 3 fields medal winners.NAME YEAR COUNTRY ERDÖS NUMBER Lars Ahlfors 1936 Finland http://www.oakland.edu/~grossman/erdpaths.html

The tables below shows of some famous scientists and mathematicians, including many Nobel laureates . Further details, including the paths that establish these numbers and many other people, can be found in LATeX postscript , and pdf (35 pages). It appears (somewhat abbreviated) in The Mathematical Intelligencer Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales In addition, we have listed on a separate page the collaboration paths Fields Medal , the Nevanlinna Prize , the Wolf Prize in Mathematics , and the Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement , as well as a few others. Perhaps the most famous contemporary mathematician, Andrew Wiles , was too old to receive a Fields Medal (but was given a Special Tribute by the Committee at the 1998 ICM ANDREW ODLYZKO to Chris M. Skinner to Wiles. William H. (Bill) Gates , who published with Christos H. Papadimitriou in 1979, who published with Xiao Tie Deng PAVOL HELL We would like to acknowledge and thank the dozens of people, too numerous to mention by name, who have written in with suggestions, additions, and corrections to these lists. We would appreciate further help from anybody with relevant information. Nobel Prize winners Fields Medal winners Nevanlinna Prize winners Wolf Prize in Mathematics winners Steele Prize (Lifetime Achievement) winners Mathematics members of the National Academy of Sciences as of 2001 Other distinguished scholars Alan Turing computer science 5 George Uhlenbeck atomic physics 2 John von Neumann mathematics 3 John A. Wheeler nuclear physics 3

75. Fields Medals Will is a selftaught mathematical protégé, discovered by Gerald Lambeau (playedby Stellan Skarasgård) an established mathematician and fields medal winner http://plus.maths.org/issue6/news/fields/

PRIME NRICH PLUS Current Issue ... Subject index Issue 22: Jan 03 Issue 21: Sep 02 Issue 20: May 02 Issue 19: Mar 02 Issue 18: Jan 02 Issue 17: Nov 01 Issue 16: Sep 01 Issue 15: Jun 01 Issue 14: Mar 01 Issue 13: Jan 01 Issue 12: Sep 00 Issue 11: Jun 00 Issue 10: Jan 00 Issue 9: Sep 99 Issue 8: May 99 Issue 7: Jan 99 Issue 6: Sep 98 Issue 5: May 98 Issue 4: Jan 98 Issue 3: Sep 97 Issue 2: May 97 Issue 1: Jan 97 Fields medals In the film "Good Will Hunting", starring Matt Damon and Robin Williams, Will Hunting What exactly is a Fields medal? Fields medals are awarded by the International Mathematical Union every four years and are regarded as the most prestigious prize attainable by mathematicians worldwide, akin to the Nobel prize. The most recent awards were announced on 18th August and two UK-based mathematicians were amongst the four people honoured. Professor Richard Borcherds and Professor Tim Gowers both work at the Department of Pure Maths and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge. So if you're a bored cleaner you now know who you've got to impress! Further information from: "Two Cambridge Mathematicians sweep the Field" The Four Fields Medallists Fields Medals and Rolf Nevanlinna Prize

76. Encyclopædia Britannica born May 29, 1957 , France. French mathematician who was awarded thefields medal in 1994 for his work in dynamical systems. Yoccoz http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=102788

77. Fields Medallist Instead, mathematicians have the fields medal. Awarded On 18th AugustProfessor Richard Borcherds received the fields medal. Unlike http://www.simonsingh.net/owtasite/Fields_Medallist.html

Fields Medallist Back to Articles Interview with Richard Borcherds The Guardian 28 August 1998 Borcherds is a 38-year-old, bearded, spectacled, slightly nervous genius. His work virtually defies explanation, which means that everybody knows that he is brilliant, but nobody understands why. Only one other person in Cambridge really comprehends his calculation, and the two gentlemen rarely meet. It seems natural that somebody might become bitter and frustrated at the failure of others to understand his work, but as far as Borcherds is concerned, it is not a problem. He has proved the moonshine conjecture, those that need to know have acknowledged it, and nothing else matters. All the newspapers which announced Borcherds’s award linked him with Trinity College, Cambridge, but I was not to meet him in the Great Court, in the Wren Library, or in Isaac Newton’s study. Instead, I wandered to the maths department which occupies a decrepit building, with metallic industrial staircases, and corridors which have the drab feel of a deprived inner city school. Although there are plans to build a shiny new department, with large open spaces designed to encourage brainstorming and collaboration, Borcherds is happy where he is. He does not like to collaborate, and is content to spend most of the day in his spartan office, scribbling at his desk or staring out of his window to the “Curry Mahal” opposite.

78. Famous Mathematicians or Archimedes as represented on the fields medal. Click on the Medal to see apicture of his tomb in Syracuse, Italy. The fields medal and Nobel Prize http://curvebank.calstatela.edu/mathematicians/mathematicians.htm

Back to . . . Curvebank Home Page The Mathematical Bridge Queens' College, Cambridge One of the many legends surrounding this bridge is that it was constructed without nails or bolts. A Selection of Great Mathematicians Click on images in this column for other views and information. or Archimedes as represented on the Fields Medal. Click on the Medal to see a picture of his tomb in Syracuse, Italy. Tell us where there is a street sign, monument, building, or room in a building, dedicated to a mathematician. Bowditch? Wiener? Sylvester? We will add your contribution and name to this collection. A monument to Newton in the foyer of the Chapel, Trinity College, Cambridge. The names in the background are those of Trinity students who died in WW II. Nearby is the statue of Newton's teacher, Isaac Barrow, the first Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. The current occupant is Stephen Hawking. The Fields Medal and Nobel Prize 1936 L V Ahlfors 1936 J Douglas 1950 L Schwartz 1950 A Selberg 1954 K Kodaira 1954 J-P Serre 1958 K F Roth 1958 R Thom 1962 J W Milnor 1966 M F Atiyah 1966 P J Cohen 1966 A Grothendieck 1966 S Smale 1970 A Baker 1970 H Hironaka 1970 S P Novikov 1970 J G Thompson 1974 E Bombieri 1974 D B Mumford 1978 P R Deligne 1978 C L Fefferman 1978 G A Margulis 1978 D G Quillen 1982 A Connes 1982 W P Thurston

79. Mathematics Links Electronic Journal Of Differential Equations. fields medal 1 , fields medal2 fields medal 3. Harvard University Department of Mathematics. IAS. http://www-math.mit.edu/~cao/mali.html

80. Prizes, Awards, And Honors For Women Mathematicians fields medal. The fields medal is considered to be the equivalent Nobel prizefor mathematics. No woman mathematician has ever won a fields medal. http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/prizes.htm

Biographies of Women Mathematicians , Agnes Scott College] Prizes, Awards, and Honors for Women Mathematicians Prizes and Awards Nobel Prize in Mathematics Fields Medal Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education ... De Morgan Medal of the London Mathematical Society Lecturers AWM Emmy Noether Lecturers Krieger-Nelson Prize Lectureship for Distinguished Research by Women in Mathematics American Mathematical Society Colloquium Lecturers Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecturers Offices Presidents of the Association for Women in Mathematics Presidents of the Mathematical Association of America Presidents of the American Mathematical Society Nobel Prize in Mathematics A trick question! There is no Nobel prize in mathematics. Why not? That question has created numerous stories, myths, and anecdotes. The most popular is that Nobel's wife had an affair with a mathematician, usually said to be Mittag-Leffler, and in revenge Nobel refused to endow one of his prizes in mathematics. Too bad for this story that Nobel was a life-long bachelor! The other common story is that Mittag-Leffler, the leading Swedish mathematician of Nobel's time, antagonized Nobel and so Nobel gave no prize in mathematics to prevent Mittag-Leffler from becoming a winner. This story is also suspect, however, because Nobel and Mittag-Leffler had almost no contact with each other. Most likely Nobel simply never gave any thought to including mathematics among his list of prize areas.

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