Excerpt from Fields medal 2022: Work on prime numbers and spheres wins maths prize, Matthew Sparkes, New Scientist, 5 July 2022
Mathematicians who have studied the most efficient way to pack spheres in eight-dimensional space and the spacing of prime numbers are among this year’s recipients of the highest award in mathematics, the Fields medal.
The winners for 2022 are James Maynard at the University of Oxford; Maryna Viazovska at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL); Hugo Duminil-Copin at the University of Geneva, Switzerland; and June Huh at Princeton University in New Jersey.
Kyiv-born Viazovska is only the second female recipient among the 64 mathematicians to have received the award.
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