Terence Tao

Terence Tao

male, 34 years old
Chinese American, Fellow of the Royal Society, From Adelaide, Chinese Australian, child prodigy, University of California, Los Angeles…FieldsMedal, Fields Medalist
Terence Chi-Shen Tao is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic...
Edward Witten

Edward Witten

male, 58 years old (United States)
Jewish person, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, American, m-theory, Fields Medalist, string theorist…National Medal of Science recipient, FieldsMedal, Albert Einstein Medal recipient
Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American mathematical physicist, Fields Medalist, and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. He...
Grigori Perelman

Grigori Perelman

male, 43 years old
scientist, Jewish, Riemannian geometry, Poincaré conjecture, FieldsMedal, Geometrization conjecture…Fields Medalist
Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman, born 13 June 1966 in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia), sometimes known as Grisha Perelman, is a Russian...
Michael Atiyah

Michael Atiyah

male, 80 years old
Old Mancunian, lebanese, british humanist association, Atiyah-Singer index theorem, Order of Merit, Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge…FieldsMedal, Fields Medalist
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, FRS (b. April 22, 1929) is a British-Lebanese mathematician, widely considered one of the greatest geometers of the...
Wendelin Werner

Wendelin Werner

male, 41 years old
Loève Prize, Fermat Prize, FieldsMedal, random walk, Oded Schramm, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie…Fields Medalist
Wendelin Werner is a German-born French mathematician working in the area of self-avoiding random walks, Schramm-Loewner evolution, and related...
Andrei Okounkov

Andrei Okounkov

male, 40 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, International Congress of Mathematician, University of California, Berkeley faculty, Erdős number 3, probability theory…FieldsMedal, Fields Medalist
Andrei Okounkov is a mathematician who works on representation theory and its applications to algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, probability...
Stephen Smale

Stephen Smale

male, 79 years old (Flint, Michigan, United States)
University of Chicago, nuclear physics, National Medal of Science recipient, Erdős number 4, Wolf Prize recipient, Poincaré conjecture…FieldsMedal, Fields Medalist
Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician from Flint, Michigan, and winner of the Fields Medal in 1966. He entered the...
Jean-Pierre Serre

Jean-Pierre Serre

male, 83 years old
Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Abel Prize, mathematician, Fields Medalist, Erdős number 2, topologist…FieldsMedal
Jean-Pierre Serre (born September 15, 1926) is one of the leading mathematicians of the twentieth century, active in algebraic geometry, number...
Laurent Lafforgue

Laurent Lafforgue

male, 43 years old
mathematician, Université de Paris-Sud, FieldsMedal, International Congress of Mathematician, from Ile-de-France, number theory…Fields Medalist
Laurent Lafforgue is a French mathematician. He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1986. In 1994 he received his Ph.D. in the Arithmetic and Al...
Atle Selberg

Atle Selberg

male, 92 years old
norwegian, mathematician, Number theorist, second world war, riemann zeta function, proof…Fields Medalist, FieldsMedal
Atle Selberg (born in Langesund June 14, 1917) is a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of...