Tag: Fields Medal Prize Rio Janeiro

• Thursday, August 2nd 2018 - 08:21 UTC

  Winner of Math's' Nobel enjoys gold medal for fifty minutes, in crime-ridden Rio

  

  One of the winners of the award known as the Nobel Prize for mathematics had his gold medal stolen minutes after it was given to him. Caucher Birkar, a Kurdish refugee turned Cambridge University math professor, was among four winners of the prestigious Fields Medal on Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro.