2018 Fields Medals

The 2018 Fields Medals in mathematics have been announced!

You can also read short prize citations for the four Fields Medalists and the Nevanlinna Prize (in theoretical computer science).

RIP Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017)

Another person has been taken from us way too soon, and this one is particularly sad. Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, the only woman to ever win the Fields Medal (though I look forward to changing that description to "the first" rather than "the only"), has died of cancer at age 40.

Here is the BBC's obituary.

(Tip of the cap to Nalini Joshi.)

Update: The Stanford obituary was written nicely. (Tip of the cap to Leslie Sheppard.)

Update: Here is Terry Tao's tribute.

Update (7/18/17): Here is the AMS's brief obituary, which includes links to some other tributes as well as prior articles.

Update (8/15/17): Here is a blog entry by Anna Haensch with links to various articles about Mirzakhani and other prominent women mathematicians who died recently.