Fields Medal Awarded to UCLA Prof, 3 others

The New York Times and Queerty (!) reported that the Fields Medal was awarded to four mathematicans last week. The Fields Medal is awarded every four years by the International Congress of Mathematicians, which was held in Madrid in 2006. It is widely considered the most prestigious award in mathematics, since there is no Nobel Prize in Mathematics. The four announced winners of the Fields Medal were awarded to Andrei Okounkov (Princeton University), Wendelin Werner (Université Paris-Sud), Terence Tao (UCLA) and Grigory Perelman, who refused the award! The award is only given to mathematicians who are 40 years old or younger.