September 8, 2006
3 Professors Win Elite Math Medals
The International Mathematical Union awarded its prestigious Fields Medal last month to three professors who teach at universities in the United States and France, and to a reclusive Russian mathematician who solved a key part of one of the discipline's most difficult problems — and who declined to accept the prize.
The Fields Medal, which is awarded every four years to mathematicians under 40, is often regarded as mathematics' equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Yet one winner,
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