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The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of Mathematicians of the International Mathematical Union, a convention wh
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Yu Deng
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Yu Deng is a Chinese mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago. He is known for his contributions to partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, and probabilistic a
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…spheres in 8 dimensions, and further contributions to related extremal problems and interpolation problems in Fourier analysis." 2026 Philadelphia, US Yu Deng University of Chicago, US "For his work in partial differential equations, including the rigorous derivation of the Boltzmann equation from hard-sphere…
Deng in 2026