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Harvard Professor of Mathematics Curtis McMullen received one of the highest honors in the field of mathematics--the Fields medal--this August...
Awarded to four mathematicians every four years by the International Conference of Mathematicians (ICM), the Fields Medal is considered the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize...
McMullen won the medal for his work in the area of mathematics commonly known as the "chaos theory...
...gold medal that McMullen received has a profile of Archimedes--the great Greek mathematician who discovered a method of calculating pi--and the quotation "Transire suum pectus mundoque potri" meaning "Rise above oneself and grasp the world," according to a press release from...
...Fields medal winners also receive a cash prize of $15,000 Canadian dollars, which is the equivalent of about $9,500 U.S. dollars, because the medal was established in 1936 by Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields...