Overview
- The International Mathematical Union announced the 2026 Fields Medal winners on Thursday, July 23, at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia, naming Hong Wang, Yu Deng, Jacob Tsimerman and John Pardon.
- Hong Wang, 35, became the third woman ever to receive the Fields Medal and is reported as the first Chinese woman to win the award for major advances in harmonic analysis and geometric measure theory, including a solution to the three‑dimensional Kakeya problem.
- Yu Deng, 37, was recognized for rigorous work in partial differential equations that gives a derivation of the Boltzmann equation linking microscopic particle laws to macroscopic gas behavior.
- Jacob Tsimerman and John Pardon were honored for leading results in algebraic and number theory and in symplectic geometry and topology that push forward core problems in those fields.
- The awards include two alumni of Peking University and have prompted wide attention in China, underscoring global academic pathways for top mathematicians and likely boosting institutional prestige and efforts to keep or attract leading researchers.