Awards & Winners

1998 Fields Medal

Check winners and nominations of 1998 Fields Medal. Check awards winners of 1998 Fields Medal. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Fields Medal

Richard Borcherds

(For his contributions to algebra, the theory of automorphic forms, and mathematical physics, including the introduction of vertex algebras and Borcherds' Lie algebras, the proof of the Conway-Norton moonshine conjecture and the discovery of a new class of automorphic infinite products.)
Fields Medal

Timothy Gowers

(For research connecting the fields of functional analysis and combinatorics.)
Fields Medal

Maxim Kontsevich

(For his contributions to four problems of geometry.)
Fields Medal

Curtis T. McMullen

(For his work in complex dynamics, hyperbolic geometry and Teichmüller theory.)
Fields Medal

Andrew Wiles

(Special tribute from IMU.)

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