Fields Medal duo a triumph for Chinese education, global collaboration
China produced two Fields Medal winners in a single year for the first time, joining the United States, France, Britain and Russia in that achievement.
Source: South China Morning Post · July 24, 2026 at 11:01 PM · AI-assisted report
KUALA LUMPUR, 25 JULY 2026 —
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China produced two Fields Medal winners in a single year for the first time, joining the United States, France, Britain and Russia in that achievement.
The honour went to Wang Hong and Deng Yu, both trained in China before advancing through overseas study and research.
Wang, who studied at Peking University, Ecole Polytechnique and Paris-Sud University before earning her doctorate at MIT, was recognised for advances in harmonic analysis and geometric measure theory. Deng, a graduate of Peking University, MIT and Princeton University, was cited for work in partial differential equations that links fundamental physics to the behaviour of gases and fluids.
The Fields Medal, awarded every four years to mathematicians under 40, also went this year to American John Pardon and Jacob Tsimerman, a Russian-born Canadian.
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