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Russian swoops “math Nobel”
Published: 19 August, 2010, 12:04
Edited: 19 August, 2010, 18:16
Russian mathematician Stanislav Smirnov has become one the four laureates of the prestigious Fields Medal, the world’s highest prize in mathematical sciences.
Smirnov, who works in Geneva University, received the prize for devising a way to apply a mathematical approach to the field of statistical physics, which deals with triangular lattices.
Three other awardees of this year’s Fields Medal are Elon Lindenstrauss from Israel, Vietnamese Ngô Bảo Châu and France’s Cédric Villani.
The Fields Metal is awarded every four years. Russians Grigory Perelman and Andrey Okunkov received the prize in 2006. However, Perelman – renown for his reclusive behavior – refused the award.
The 2010 ceremony took place in Hyderabad, India.
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