Fields Medal
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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 the International Mathematical Union, a convention which takes place ev
The obverse of the Fields Medal features Archimedes
The reverse of the medal
Artur Avila
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Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo is a Brazilian mathematician working primarily in the fields of dynamical systems and spectral theory. He is one of the winners of the 2014 Fields Medal, being the first L
Avila at the Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach in 2012.
Four Fields medallists left to right (Artur Avila, Martin Hairer (at back), Maryam Mirzakhani, with Maryam's daughter Anahita) and Manjul Bhargava at the ICM 2014 in Seoul