List of countries by number of Fields Medalists

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This article includes a list of countries by number of Fields Medal winners. That is, a list of countries ranked by their Fields Medalists.

The figures only include Fields Medals awarded up to and including 3 August 2018 by their country of birth and citizenship at the time of the announcement of the award.

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Rank Country Fields medals (#) Fields medalists (2018)
1  United States 13 Curtis T. McMullen, John G. Thompson, David Mumford, Charles Fefferman, Daniel Quillen, William Thurston, Michael Freedman, Edward Witten, Jesse Douglas, Paul Cohen, Stephen Smale, John Milnor, Manjul Bhargava
2  France 12 Laurent Lafforgue, Cédric Villani, Alain Connes, Pierre-Louis Lions, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, Laurent Schwartz, Jean-Pierre Serre, René Thom, Ngo Bao Chau, Artur Avila, Wendelin Werner, Alexander Grothendieck
3  Russia 8 Maxim Kontsevich, Vladimir Voevodsky, Andrei Okounkov, Grigori Perelman (refused), Stanislav Smirnov, Sergei Novikov, Grigory Margulis, Efim Zelmanov
4  United Kingdom 5 Richard Borcherds, Timothy Gowers, Alan Baker, Simon Donaldson, Michael Francis Atiyah
5  Japan 3 Heisuke Hironaka, Shigefumi Mori, Kunihiko Kodaira
6  Germany 2 Gerd Faltings, Peter Scholze
6  Iran 2 Maryam Mirzakhani[1][2], Caucher Birkar[n 1]
6  Italy 2 Enrico Bombieri, Alessio Figalli
6  Belgium 2 Pierre Deligne, Jean Bourgain
6  Australia 2 Terence Tao, Akshay Venkatesh
11  China 1 Shing-Tung Yau[3]
11  Norway 1 Atle Selberg
11  Sweden 1 Lars Hörmander
11  Finland 1 Lars Ahlfors
11  Canada 1 Manjul Bhargava
11  Israel 1 Elon Lindenstrauss
11  Austria 1 Martin Hairer[n 2]
11   Switzerland 1 Martin Hairer[n 3]
11  Ukraine 1 Vladimir Drinfeld
11  New Zealand 1 Vaughan Jones
11  Brazil 1 Artur Avila
11  Vietnam 1 Ngô Bảo Châu
11  South Africa 1 Richard Borcherds

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  1. ^ Caucher Birkar was born in a Kurdish village in Iran and attended the University of Tehran but sought political asylum and now has British citizenship.
  2. ^ Martin Hairer was born in Switzerland, but has Austrian citizenship.
  3. ^ Martin Hairer was born in Switzerland, but has Austrian citizenship.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Mirzakhani, Maryam. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 November 2005. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  2. ^ Valette, Alain. "The Fields Medalists 2014" (PDF). Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Institut de mathématiques, Université de Neuchâtel. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  3. ^ Nasar, Sylvia; Gruber, David (August 26, 2006). "Manifold Destiny: A legendary problem and the battle over who solved it". New Yorker. Retrieved February 26, 2020. When I stepped out from the airplane, I touched the soil of Beijing and felt great joy to be in my mother country, I am proud to say that when I was awarded the Fields Medal in mathematics, I held no passport of any country and should certainly be considered Chinese.
  4. ^ https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal

Akshay Venkatesh was born in India but is an Australian citizen

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