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81. CLAS For Faculty/Staff
    This achievement won Thompson the fields medal in 1970, the highest prize in In addition to the fields medal, Thompson was awarded the Cole Prize of the  
    http://www.clas.ufl.edu/about/scholars.html
    
    Extractions: His 1937 doctorate, the first granted in zoology by the University of Florida, was under the supervision of professor J. Speed Rogers, a limnologist. The entomologist Theodore Hubbell also influenced him strongly, as did the great animal ecologist W. C. Allee, who taught him the importance of ecological organization. Although he learned ecology early, his first professional accomplishments were in taxonomy and evolutionary biology. From 1937 to 1943, Archie Carr spent his summers with Thomas Barbour, at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. It was Barbour who first expanded his horizons and gave him confidence in his own rapidly maturing intellectual powers. Barbour was the most important single person in Archie Carr's formative years as a biologist. The Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research has been named in his honor.

82. Laurent Lafforgue Awarded The Fields Medal
    The prestigious fields medal is the equivalent of the Nobel prize forMathematics (except, unlike the more pedestrian Nobels, it is awarded only once every  
    http://www.majid.info/mylos/weblog/2002/08/21-1.html
    
    Extractions: Fazal Majid's low-intensity weblog Mostly random pontification, delivered at irregular intervals. Wednesday, August 21, 2002 Le Monde article in French (good to see that in France at least, Mathematics can still make the front page, an editorial page and a biographical profile in the newspaper of record) For the French-challenged, the Mathematical Association of America article. The prestigious Fields Medal is the equivalent of the Nobel prize for Mathematics (except, unlike the more pedestrian Nobels, it is awarded only once every four years). One of the winners this year is Laurent Lafforgue. Polytechnique or Normale Sup (a "colleur" in French) when I was in my first year of preparatory classes at the in Paris. The problem, of course, was that he was so brilliant he had no idea which problems were reasonable and which all but impossible for lesser mortals... Update (2002-09-23): Salon.com has an article as well. 12:08 - (permalink)

83. 18 August 1998: Two Cambridge Mathematicians Sweep The Field
    have won two out of the four highly prestigious fields medals this year.The fields medal is equivalent to the Nobel Prize, and is the highest accolade  
    http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/press/dpp/1998081801
    
    Extractions: Two Cambridge Mathematicians sweep the Field 18 August 1998 International Maths Prizes come to Britons Cambridge University mathematicians have won two out of the four highly prestigious Fields Medals this year. The Fields Medal is equivalent to the Nobel Prize, and is the highest accolade for mathematics the world over. Presented once every four years by the International Mathematical Union, the results are announced in Berlin today, 18th August 1998, at the International Congress of Mathematicians. The two Cambridge mathematicians are Professor Richard Borcherds, a Royal Society Research Professor, and Professor Tim Gowers, the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics. Both of them are in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge and completed the Mathematical Tripos and their doctoral studies at Cambridge. A third medal winner, Professor C McMullen of Harvard University, studied Part II of the Mathematical Tripos in Cambridge in 1980-81. Only four British mathematicians have won the prize since its inception in 1936, when the will of the Canadian mathematician Joseph Fields made provision for gold medals to be awarded to the world's most original mathematicians aged under 40 on the year of the International Congress of Mathematicians. The last British winner was Professor Simon Donaldson, then of Oxford University and now at Bristol, in 1986.

84. Science.ca Profile : John Charles Fields
    Established the fields medal, the Nobel Prize of mathematics. Birthdate First awarded in 1936, the fields medals are presented every four years at the  
    http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=284

85. Prizes, Awards, And Honors For Women Mathematicians
    The fields medal is considered to be the equivalent of the Nobel prize for The first fields medal was awarded at the International Congress of  
    http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/prizes.htm
    
    Extractions: Biographies of Women Mathematicians , Agnes Scott College] A trick question! There is no Nobel prize in mathematics. Why not? That question has created numerous stories, myths, and anecdotes. The most popular is that Nobel's wife had an affair with a mathematician, usually said to be Mittag-Leffler, and in revenge Nobel refused to endow one of his prizes in mathematics. Too bad for this story that Nobel was a life-long bachelor! The other common story is that Mittag-Leffler, the leading Swedish mathematician of Nobel's time, antagonized Nobel and so Nobel gave no prize in mathematics to prevent Mittag-Leffler from becoming a winner. This story is also suspect, however, because Nobel and Mittag-Leffler had almost no contact with each other. Most likely Nobel simply never gave any thought to including mathematics among his list of prize areas.

86. Sample Chapter For Odifreddi, P.: The Mathematical Century: The 30 Greatest Prob
    In the twentieth century, fortytwo fields medals were awarded, A complementto the fields medal is the Wolf Prize, a kind of Oscar for life achievement  
    http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/i7789.html
    
    Extractions: Book Description Endorsements Table of Contents Class Use and other Permissions . For more information, send e-mail to permissions@pupress.princeton.edu This file is also available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format Introduction The world described by the natural and the physical sciences is a concrete and perceptible one: in the first approximation through the senses, and in the second approximation through their various extensions provided by technology. The world described by mathematics is instead an abstract world, made up of ideas that can only be perceived through the mind's eyes. With time and practice, abstract concepts such as numbers and points have nevertheless acquired enough objectivity to allow even an ordinary person to picture them in an essentially concrete way, as though they belonged to a world of objects as concrete as those of the physical world. Modern science has nonetheless undermined the naive vision of the external world. Scientific research has extended its reach to the vastness of the cosmos as well as to the infinitesimally small domain of the particles, making a direct sensorial perception of galaxies and atoms impossibleor possible only indirectly, through technological meansand thus reducing them in effect to mathematical representations. Likewise, modern mathematics has also extended its domain of inquiry to the rarefied abstractions of structures and the meticulous analysis of the foundations, freeing itself completely from any possible visualization.

87. Viewpoint: Top Math Medal Has Canadian Connection
    The top award for mathematicians is the fields medal, which happens to bear thename of a Since 1936, 42 mathematicians have received the fields medal.  
    http://ring.uvic.ca/01feb02/viewpoint1.html
    
    Extractions: In 1896 the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel died rich and famous. His will provided the establishment of a prize fund. Starting in 1901 the annual interest was yearly awarded for the most important contributions to physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. The economics prize appeared later. The Central Bank of Sweden founded it in 1968 to commemorate its 300th anniversary. Fields was born in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1863. At the age of 21 he graduated from the University of Toronto with a BA in mathematics. Three years later he finished his PhD at Johns Hopkins University and was appointed professor at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, where he taught from 1889 to 1892. But soon his dream of pursuing research faded away. North America was not ready to fund novel ideas in science. Then an opportunity in Europe came up.

88. Historia Matematica Mailing List Archive: [HM] Fields Medal Inscription
    Next in thread Julio Gonzalez Cabillon Re HM fields medal Inscription .Today s press release concerning the awarding of the fields medals says  
    http://sunsite.utk.edu/math_archives/.http/hypermail/historia/aug98/0084.html

89. Historia Matematica Mailing List Archive: Re: [HM] Fields Medal Inscription
    Eberhard Knobloch fully describes the design of the fields medal at Today s press release concerning the awarding of the fields medals says  
    http://sunsite.utk.edu/math_archives/.http/hypermail/historia/aug98/0092.html

90. Funding Guide For International Science And Technology Cooperation - Details
    IMU fields medal Prize , Gold medal. Information Required in Application,Please see IMU website. Contact, Professor Phillip Griffiths  
    http://fgic-gfci.scitech.gc.ca/details.php?lang=e&id=53

91. Science -- Sign In
    There is no Nobel Prize in mathematics, and the fields medal, awarded every 4years by Unlike Nobels, fields medals are traditionally awarded only to  
    http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/281/5381/1265
    
    Extractions: You do not have access to this item: Full Text : Jackson, MATHEMATICS:Top Honors Go to Math With a Physics Flavor, Science You are on the site via Free Public Access. What content can I view with Free Public Access If you have a personal user name and password, please login below. SCIENCE Online Sign In Options For Viewing This Content User Name Password this computer. Help with Sign In If you don't use cookies, sign in here Join AAAS and subscribe to Science for free full access. Sign Up More Info Register for Free Partial Access including abstracts, summaries and special registered free full text content. Register More Info Pay per Article 24 hours for US $10.00 from your current computer Regain Access to a recent Pay per Article purchase Need More Help? Can't get past this page? Forgotten your user name or password? AAAS Members activate your FREE Subscription

92. Newsroom
    receive the fields medal, the most prestigious award in pure mathematics. for Theoretical Physics; the 1990 fields medal; and numerous other awards.  
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93. Fields Medal
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94. University Of California, San Diego: External Relations: News & Information: New
    Zelmanov, a professor of mathematics at UCSD, received his fields medal in 1994for solving the Restricted Burnside Problem, a fundamental algebraic  
    http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/mczelmanov.htm
    
    Extractions: Getting Around Campus - Online Maps - VirtualVisit to UCSD - Visitor Parking - Campus Tours - UCSD Infopath Getting Around San Diego What's Happening - Calendar of Events - Academic Calendar - UC TV Online - Showcase Calendar - UC Newswire Points of Interest - Stuart Collection - Birch Aquarium - Preuss School - UCSD Bookstore - UCSD Libraries Publications - UCSD Annual Report - UCSD Catalog Joining In - Chancellor's Associates - - Scripps Oceanographic Society - Student Foundation - Support Groups Becoming A Student - Student Affairs Other News Web sites - Engineering - International Relations - Health Sciences - Scripps Institution of Oceanography Efim Zelmanov, a former Yale University mathematics professor and recipient of the Fields Medal, commonly known as the Nobel Prize for mathematicians, has joined the faculty at the University of California, San Diego. The Annals of Mathematics, The Journal of Algebra and The Journal of the American Mathematical Society.

95. (Fields Medal)
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96. Backgrounder Laurent Lafforgue, Winner Of Fields Medal Prize 2002
    Backgrounder Laurent Lafforgue, winner of fields medal Prize 2002 LaurentLafforgue was one of two winners awarded a 2002 fields medal Prizeat the 24th  
    http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-08/20/content_532074.htm

97. Backgrounder 2002 Fields Medal Prize Winner Vladimir Voevodsky
    Backgrounder 2002 fields medal prize winner Vladimir Voevodsky a Russianmathematician won the 2002 fields medal Prize at the opening ceremony of the  
    http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-08/20/content_532071.htm

98. Sci.math FAQ: Fields Medal
    Subject sci.math FAQ fields medal. This article was archived around 17 Feb2000 225200 Tropp, Henry S. The origins and history of the fields medal.  
    http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/sci-math-faq/fieldsmedal.html
    
    Extractions: Note from archiver cs.uu.nl: This page is part of a big collection of Usenet postings, archived here for your convenience. For matters concerning the content of this page , please contact its author(s); use the source , if all else fails. For matters concerning the archive as a whole, please refer to the archive description or contact the archiver. This article was archived around: 17 Feb 2000 22:52:00 GMT All FAQs in Directory: sci-math-faq

99. NESTA Futurelab - Viewpoint Article - Number Crunchers
    the misfit maths genius played by Matt Damon in the film Good Will Hunting did.The fields medal is the highest accolade a mathematician can be awarded.  
    http://www.nestafuturelab.org/viewpoint/learn07.htm
    
    Extractions: The mathematician John Nash (played by Russell Crowe in the movie A Beautiful Mind ) did not win one; the fictitious Harvard mathematician who tutored the misfit maths genius played by Matt Damon in the film Good Will Hunting did. The Fields Medal is the highest accolade a mathematician can be awarded. The most colourful is that he was miffed because his wife had an affair with a prominent Swedish mathematician. Nobel never married, however. The most likely reason was that Nobel viewed mathematics as a tool used by science, not a science in itself. In any event, it is harder to win a Fields Medal than a Nobel Prize. For one thing, they are awarded only every four years and, second, the recipient has to be under 40, in keeping with Fields' desire that the medals serve to encourage. The medals are awarded by the International Mathematical Union, on the advice of a selection committee of top mathematicians from around the world. Made of gold, it is struck at the Royal Canadian Mint. One side has a picture of Archimedes and bears the inscription (in Latin): "To transcend one's spirit and to take hold of [to master] the world." The other side reads (also in Latin): "Mathematicians congregated from the whole world awarded [this medal] for outstanding writings." Both of this year's medallists won their awards for groundbreaking research that brings mathematicians closer to being able to see how seemingly different areas of mathematics are, in fact, connected. Lafforgue made a major advance in what mathematicians call the Langlands Program, providing new connections between number theory and analysis.

100. History And Timeline Of The IMO Competitions
     three consecutive gold medals for the UK. Vladimir Drinfel d earned a goldmedal for the Soviet Union. He would go on to earn the fields medal in 1990.  
     http://www.unl.edu/amc/e-exams/e9-imo/imotimeline.html
     
     Extractions: 1959-2001 courtesy of http://imo.wolfram.com IMO was held in Athens Greece The Contest had participants from 85 countries IMO was held in Tokyo, Japan The Contest had participants of 457 students from 82 countries + 2 countries with observer participants only There were 35 Gold Medals, 66 Silver Medals and 100 Bronze Medals IMO was held in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 84 countries participating 39 Gold medals, 73 silver and 120 bronze medals awarded IMO was held in Washington, DC, USA. 83 countries participating. IMO was held in Taejon, Korea. 82 countries were represented. To commemorate the event, Korea issued a postage stamp There were 39 gold medals, 71 silver medals, and 119 bronze medals awarded. All six representatives for China earned gold medals: Zhiwei Yun, Zhipeng Liu, Xin Li, Qihui Zhu, Xinyi Yuan, and Zhongtao Wu. Top scorers were Alexandr Usnich (Belarus), Zhiwei Yun (China), Alexei Poiarkov (Russia), and Alexandre Gaifoulline (Russia). Each had 42 points, a perfect score. Kentaro Nagao earned his third gold medal for Japan. Vladimir Dremov earned his third gold medal for Russia.

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