1990 Fields Medal (4)
Reason for Award
proof in 1981 of the positive energy theorem ingeneral relativity
Laureates
Edward Witten, 1951年 - ）
United States of America
Other works in the same year
- For his work onquantum groupsand for his work innumber theory.
- for his discovery of an unexpected link between the mathematical study ofknots– a field that dates back to the 19th century – andstatistical mechanics, a form of mathematics used to study complex systems with large numbers of components.
- for the proof of Hartshorne’s conjecture and his work on the classification of three-dimensionalalgebraic varieties.