Swiss-, UK- and US-based mathematicians have won three of 2022’s four Fields Medals, a spread that campaigners say strengthens the case for open European Union collaboration.
The prize, awarded every four years to up to four mathematicians under the age of 40, is often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of mathematics”.
This year’s winners were Hugo Duminil-Copin, of the University of Geneva and Paris’ Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques; June Huh, of Princeton University; James Maynard, of the University of Oxford; and Maryna Viazovska, of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
