Despite criticisms of a brain drain from China to the U.S., the awards come at a time when several high-profile Chinese scholars have returned home, some citing an increasingly hostile academic environment in America.
Wang Hong is the third woman—and first from China—to be awarded the world's most prestigious mathematics prize.
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