4 men awarded Fields Medal during congress in Rio de Janeiro
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August 2, 2018
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Four mathematicians on Wednesday were awarded this year's Fields Medal, a prestigious award that many describe as the Nobel Prize of mathematics.
Given every four years, the prize goes to mathematicians under 40 and the winners were announced during the International Congress of Mathematicians being held in Rio de Janeiro.
Peter Scholze, a 30-year-old professor at the University of Bonn, was the youngest winner.
"My very first success was winning the regional math Olympiad in Berlin. Since then I've been expecting it to stop somewhere, but it hasn't," the German mathemati...
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