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Berlin (AP) — Ukrainian mathematician Marina Viyazovska was named one of the four winners of the prestigious Fields Medal, often referred to as the Nobel Prize in mathematics, on Tuesday.
The International Congress of Mathematicians said Viazovska, chair of number theory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, was praised for her work of packing the same sphere in eight dimensions most closely. rice field.
The other winner was the French mathematician Hugo Duminil-Copin of the University of Geneva. Princen's Korean-American mathematician June Fu. James Maynard, a British mathematician at Oxford University.
The Fields Medal is awarded to mathematicians under the age of 40 every four years.
