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Medals for Math
- Aug 05, 2022
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John Charles Fields was from Canada. A very good mathematician, he died in 1932.Fields wanted more young students to study mathematics. He decided to try to encourage them.Fields set up a mathematics prize or award. These prizes are called Fields Medals.Fields medals are presented to the best mathematicians. The winners must be younger than 40 years of age.The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is a group of the world’s best mathematicians. It meets every four years.The organizers of the ICM announce the Fields Medal winners at the start of the meeting.The latest ICM took place in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. A woman from Ukraine was one of the winners. She is the second woman to win a Fields Medal. Currently, she teaches at a Swiss university.The other three medal winners were from Britain, France and America. They are professors at British, Swiss and American universities.The winners receive a gold medal plus $11,500. The medal has the head of Archimedes on one side. An Ancient Greek, he lived 2,300 years ago. Archimedes was a mathematician, engineer and inventor. People call him “the father of mathematics”.
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