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Ukrainian Mathematician Maryna Viazovska Wins Fields Medal | Quanta Magazine

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The Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland in May. Thomas Lin/Quanta Magazine Editor in Chief Contributing Correspondent July 5, 2022 In late February, just weeks after Maryna Viazovska learned she had won a Fields Medal — the highest honor for a mathematician — Russian tanks and war planes began their assault on Ukraine, her homeland, and Kyiv, her hometown. Viazovska no longer lived in Ukraine, but her family was still there. Her two sisters, a 9-year-old niece and an 8-year-old nephew set out for Switzerland, where Viazovska now lives. They first had to wait two days for the traffic to let up; even then the drive west was painfully slow. After spending several days in a stranger’s home, waiting their turn as war refugees, the four walked across the border one night into Slovakia, went on to Budapest with help from the Red Cross, then boarded a flight to Geneva. On March 4, they arrived in Lausanne, where they st

Ukrainian Mathematician Maryna Viazovska Wins Fields Medal | Quanta Magazine Home In Times of Scarcity, War and Peace, a Ukrainian Finds the Magic in Math Read Later Share Copied! Comments Read Later Read Later Next: 2022 Fields and Abacus Medals He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Medal. SERIES 2022 Fields and Abacus Medals In Times of Scarcity, War and Peace, a Ukrainian Finds the Magic in Math By Thomas Lin and Erica Klarreich July 5, 2022 With her homeland mired in war, the sphere-packing number theorist Maryna Viazovska has become the second woman to win a Fields Medal

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