Peter Scholze is only the second German to have received the Fields Medal in over 80 years. The first German prize winner was Professor Dr. Gerd Faltings in 1986. He is currently director at the Max ...

Caucher Birkar, a Cambridge University professor of Iranian Kurdish origin, on Wednesday was named one of four winners of the prestigious Fields medal, often known as the Nobel prize for mathematics.

Peter Scholze, Hausdorff Professor of Mathematics at the University of Bonn, will be awarded the 2015 AMS Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in January in San Antonio ...

In 2010, a 22-year-old graduate student named Peter Scholze won widespread acclaim after condensing a 288-page proof into a svelte 37 pages. Two years later, he was hired by his alma mater as a full ...

Four Fields Medals were awarded for major breakthroughs in geometry, combinatorics, statistical physics and number theory, even as mathematicians continued to wrestle with how computers are changing ...