The four winners of the 2026 Fields Medal, regarded as the equal of the Nobel Prize for mathematics, have been named. The medals are awarded to scholars younger than 40.

Two of the four are the first Chinese-born winners of the prize since 1986.

Mathematicians who helped unify laws of physics and cracked decades-old problems in geometry are among this year's recipients of the Fields medal

The 2026 Fields Medals recognize breakthroughs in the math of messy fluids, tangled knots, spinning pencils, and more