The Fields Medal for the year 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------- The Fields Medal for the year 2014 was awarded on 13 August 2014 in Seoul, South Korea. The award recognized contributions of four medallists: • Artur Avila of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu, for his contributions in Dynamical Systems Theory • Manjul Bhargava of Princeton University, for developing new approach in the geometry of numbers • Martin Hairer of the University of Warwick, for his contributions to the Theory of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations • Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian born mathematician, awarded for her contributions to the field of geometry particularly in studying the symmetry of curved surfaces such as spheres. The Fields Medal was first awarded in 1936 to Finnish mathematician Lars Ahlfors and American mathematician Jesse Douglas.
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