List of countries by number of Fields Medalists

This article includes a list of countries by number of Fields Medal winners. That is, a list of countries ranked by their Fields Medalists.

The figures only include Fields Medals awarded up to and including 3 August 2018 by their country of birth and citizenship at the time of the announcement of the award.

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Rank Country Fields medals (#) Fields medalists (2018)
1 United States13Curtis T. McMullen, John G. Thompson, David Mumford, Charles Fefferman, Daniel Quillen, William Thurston, Michael Freedman, Edward Witten, Jesse Douglas, Paul Cohen, Stephen Smale, John Milnor, Manjul Bhargava
2 France12Laurent Lafforgue, Cédric Villani, Alain Connes, Pierre-Louis Lions, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, Laurent Schwartz, Jean-Pierre Serre, René Thom, Ngo Bao Chau, Artur Avila, Wendelin Werner, Alexander Grothendieck
3 Russia9Maxim Kontsevich, Vladimir Voevodsky, Andrei Okounkov, Grigori Perelman (refused), Stanislav Smirnov, Sergei Novikov, Grigory Margulis, Efim Zelmanov,Vladimir Arnold
4 United Kingdom5Richard Borcherds, Timothy Gowers, Alan Baker, Simon Donaldson, Michael Francis Atiyah
5 Japan3Heisuke Hironaka, Shigefumi Mori, Kunihiko Kodaira
6 Germany2Gerd Faltings, Peter Scholze
6 Italy2Enrico Bombieri, Alessio Figalli
6 Belgium2Pierre Deligne, Jean Bourgain
6 Australia2Terence Tao, Akshay Venkatesh[n 1]
6 Ukraine2Vladimir Drinfeld,Vladimir Arnold
6 Iran2Maryam Mirzakhani[2][3], Caucher Birkar[n 2]
12  Switzerland1Martin Hairer[n 3]
12 Austria1Martin Hairer[n 3]
12 Norway1Atle Selberg
12 Sweden1Lars Hörmander
12 Finland1Lars Ahlfors
12 New Zealand1Vaughan Jones
12 Canada1Manjul Bhargava
12 Brazil1Artur Avila
12 Israel1Elon Lindenstrauss
12 China1Shing-Tung Yau[4]
12 Vietnam1Ngô Bảo Châu

See also

Notes
  1. Akshay Venkatesh was born in India but is an Australian citizen
  2. Caucher Birkar was born in a Kurdish village in Iran and attended the University of Tehran but sought political asylum and now has British citizenship.
  3. Martin Hairer was born in Switzerland, but has Austrian citizenship.

References
  1. https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal
  2. Mirzakhani, Maryam. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 November 2005. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  3. Valette, Alain. "The Fields Medalists 2014" (PDF). Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Institut de mathématiques, Université de Neuchâtel. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  4. Nasar, Sylvia; Gruber, David (August 26, 2006). "Manifold Destiny: A legendary problem and the battle over who solved it". New Yorker. Retrieved February 26, 2020. When I stepped out from the airplane, I touched the soil of Beijing and felt great joy to be in my mother country, I am proud to say that when I was awarded the Fields Medal in mathematics, I held no passport of any country and should certainly be considered Chinese.
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