2022 Fields Medal (2)
Reason for Award
For bringing the ideas of Hodge theory to combinatorics, the proof of the Dowling–Wilson conjecture for geometric lattices, the proof of the Heron–Rota–Welsh conjecture for matroids, the development of the theory of Lorentzian polynomials, and the proof of the strong Mason conjecture.
Laureates
June Huh,
United States of America
Other works in the same year
- For solving longstanding problems in the probabilistic theory of phase transitions in statistical physics, especially in dimensions three and four.
- For contributions to analytic number theory, which have led to major advances in the understanding of the structure of prime numbers and in Diophantine approximation.解析的整数論に貢献し，素数の構造理解とディオファントス近似の理解に大きな進歩をもたらした[22]。
- For the proof that theE8{\displaystyle E_{8}}lattice provides the densest packing of identical spheres in 8 dimensions, and further contributions to related extremal problems and interpolation problems in Fourier analysis.球充填問題を8次元と24次元で解決したことや，フーリエ解析における極値および補間問題への更なる貢献が評価[22]。
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