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Fields medal
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A prize awarded every four years to two, three, or four young mathematicians (under forty years of age) at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union. The cash value of the award in 2006 was over $US\$ 13000$. Canadian mathematician \htmladdnormallink{John Charles Fields}{http://planetmath.org/encyclopedia/JCharlesFields.html} founded the award in his testament, and the first recipients received the award in 1936. From 1950 the award has been \htmladdnormallink{periodic}{http://planetmath.org/encyclopedia/Torsion5.html}. The Fields Medal is to mathematics what the Nobel prize in physics is to physics. \end{document} $
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Cross-references: periodic, John Charles Fields, union
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This is version 2 of Fields medal, born on 2006-08-24, modified 2006-09-01.
Object id is 8291, canonical name is FieldsMedal.
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| AMS MSC: | 01A60 (History and biography :: History of mathematics and mathematicians :: 20th century) | | | 01A61 (History and biography :: History of mathematics and mathematicians :: Twenty-first century) | | | 01A65 (History and biography :: History of mathematics and mathematicians :: Contemporary) |
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