Yu Deng Wins the Fields Medal 2026 for His Work on the Random Data Problem | Quanta Magazine

Before he won a Fields Medal for his pioneering work balancing randomness and order, Yu Deng first had to achieve equilibrium in his own life.

SERIES Amid Life’s Chaos, a Meticulous Mathematician Finds Stability Before he won a Fields Medal for his pioneering work balancing randomness and order, Yu Deng had to achieve equilibrium in his own life. Yu Deng faced waves of uncertainty and doubt before attempting the work that would earn him a Fields Medal. Kristen Normand for Quanta Magazine Freedom and restraint seem like opposing forces, but to Yu Deng, they go hand in hand. Take the poem he’s just pulled up on his computer screen: a dense forest of Chinese characters corralled into eight lines of equal length — a perfect,…

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