The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years. The medal was first awarded in 1936.
The most recent group of Fields Medalists received their awards on 5 July 2022 in an online event which was live-streamed from Helsinki, Finland.
James Maynard (University of Oxford, UK) : For contributions to analytic number theory, which have led to major advances in the understanding of the structure of prime numbers and in Diophantine approximation
Hugo Duminil-Copin (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France; University of Geneva, Switzerland) : For solving longstanding problems in the probabilistic theory of phase transitions in statistical physics, especially in dimensions three and four.
June Huh (Princeton University, US) : For bringing the ideas of Hodge theory to combinatorics, the proof of the Dowling–Wilson conjecture for geometric lattices, the proof of the Heron–Rota–Welsh conjecture for matroids, the development of the theory of Lorentzian polynomials, and the proof of the strong Mason conjecture.
Maryna Viazovska (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) : For the proof that the E8 lattice provides the densest packing of identical spheres in 8 dimensions, and further contributions to related extremal problems and interpolation problems in Fourier analysis.
In 2014, Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to win the Fields Medal. She died in 2017.