The Fields Medal is the most prestigious award for mathematicians and has been awarded every four years since 1936 at the International Mathematical Congress to at least two young mathematicians for ...

One of the most prestigious prizes in mathematics, the Fields Medal, has been handed out at a ceremony in Brazil. Caucher Birkar, Alessio Figalli and Peter Scholze, and Akshay Venkatesh are all ...

Ukrainian mathematician, Maryna Viazovska, has become only the second woman to receive the prestigious Fields Medal. Often regarded as the Nobel Prize for mathematics, she won for her work on a ...

The Americans fared well in the pool, but dominated athletics. The U.S. won by far the most medals in track and field with 34 ...

In 2014, prior to her untimely death at the age of 40, she became both the first woman and the first Iranian to be awarded the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics, often ...

The Games were one of the main attractions at the 1904 World’s Fair, which drew 19.7 million attendees on a 124-acre site.

Nia Ali and Kristi Castlin did something Wednesday night that no three American women had ever done at the Summer Olympic track and field competition: sweep the medals in one event, in this case ...