Fields Maths Medalist Pays Tribute to Homeland Ukraine

Ukraine’s Maryna Viazovska has paid tribute to those suffering in her ‘war-torn’ country as she became the second woman to be awarded the Fields medal, known as the Nobel prize for mathematics.

Viazovska, a 37-year-old Kyiv-born maths professor, received the ‘prestigious award’ alongside three other winners at a ceremony in Helsinki.

The International Congress of Mathematicians, where the prize is awarded, was “initially scheduled to be held in Russia’s second city Saint Petersburg and initiated by President Vladimir Putin.”

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