Hong Wang
A collection containing a unit line segment in every direction can have zero volume, yet its fractal dimension remains constrained.
Birth location · ChinaAt award · France, United States
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Birth location · ChinaAt award · France, United States
Read the biography ↗An idea from mathematical logic helps distinguish exceptional arithmetic patterns from the ordinary points of complicated geometric parameter spaces.
Birth location · RussiaAt award · Canada
Read the biography ↗Symplectic geometry extracts information from families of curves, but those families can be too singular for ordinary counting to work.
Birth location · United StatesAt award · United States
Read the biography ↗How can reversible collisions of countless tiny particles produce the statistical equation used to describe the evolution of a gas?
Birth location · ChinaAt award · United States
Read the biography ↗Random connections or microscopic spins can suddenly organize at a critical threshold, creating large-scale behavior invisible in any single component.
Birth location · FranceAt award · France, Switzerland
Read the biography ↗Primes become rarer as numbers grow, yet carefully designed sieve weights reveal infinitely many intervals containing several of them together.
Birth location · United KingdomAt award · United Kingdom
Read the biography ↗Numbers obtained by counting finite configurations often rise and fall regularly; geometric ideas explain why certain patterns cannot fluctuate arbitrarily.
Birth location · United StatesAt award · United States, South Korea
Read the biography ↗The E8 lattice looks extraordinarily efficient, but proving optimality requires ruling out every competing arrangement, including irregular and nonperiodic packings.
Birth location · UkraineAt award · Switzerland
Read the biography ↗Number-theoretic objects can become points or trajectories in a geometric space, allowing dynamics to reveal patterns that direct calculation hides.
Birth location · IndiaAt award · United States
Read the biography ↗Optimal transport compares distributions by moving mass between them, turning a question about cheapest routes into deep information about geometric regularity.
Birth location · ItalyAt award · Switzerland
Read the biography ↗Polynomial equations define endlessly many spaces; birational geometry searches for building blocks and asks how complicated those blocks can become.
Birth location · IranAt award · United Kingdom
Read the biography ↗Perfectoid spaces let mathematicians transfer difficult geometric questions between characteristic zero and characteristic p, where different tools become available.
Birth location · GermanyAt award · Germany
Read the biography ↗A simple repeated rule can produce stability or chaos; renormalization compares its behavior at different scales to uncover the deeper organization.
Birth location · BrazilAt award · Brazil, France
Read the biography ↗Integer equations can look unrelated one by one; organizing them as geometric objects makes it possible to study their average behavior.
Birth location · CanadaAt award · United States
Read the biography ↗Some random-growth equations contain products too irregular for ordinary calculus; regularity structures provide a precise language for making them meaningful.
Birth location · SwitzerlandAt award · United Kingdom
Read the biography ↗A curved surface contains infinitely many closed geodesics; understanding the family of all surface geometries reveals a surprising law for simple loops.
Birth location · IranAt award · United States
Read the biography ↗Particles need not stop moving for a collective electric field to fade; phase mixing can produce damping without ordinary friction.
Birth location · FranceAt award · France
Read the biography ↗An orbit may look unpredictable, yet several compatible symmetries can sharply limit its possible statistical behavior and constrain arithmetic patterns.
Birth location · IsraelAt award · Israel, United States
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