June-Huh, a professor at Princeton University in the United States, was honored with the Fields Medal, called the Nobel Prize in mathematics, which is given every four years. It’s the first time for a Korean.
Professor Huh’s representative achievements are solving the long-standing challenges of the mathematics world, the guesses of rota and lead.
Korean mathematician Mr.Huh, a professor at Princeton University in the United States and a professor of mathematics at the Korean Academy of Advanced Sciences, was honored with the Fields Medal of the “Math Nobel Prize.”
The International Mathematical Federation announced four people, including Professor Huh, as winners of the 2022 Fields Medal at an award ceremony in Helsinki, Finland.
Established in 1936, the Fields Medal is the best prize in mathematics for researchers under the age of 40 who make outstanding achievements in mathematics every four years and are expected to achieve academic achievements.
Professor Huh is the first Korean to win the award.Professor Huh, 39, was nominated for the Fields Medal four years ago. Heo was born in California, the U.S., while his parents were studying abroad, but after returning to Korea with his parents at the age of two, he went to Korea from elementary school to undergraduate and master’s degree.He was known to have dreamed of becoming a poet or a scientific journalist until he discovered his mathematical talent in the third year of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Seoul National University.
Professor Huh’s lecture by Fields Medal winner Professor Heisuke Hironaka by the time he finished his undergraduate degree was the decisive factor that led him to become a mathematician.After finishing his master’s degree at Seoul National University, he left the U.S. to study and received a doctorate degree from the University of Michigan in 2014.In particular, Professor Heo surprised the world’s mathematics world by solving the “lead guess” during his Ph.D. program in 2012 and then solving the “rotta guess” again in 2018.
Professor Heo was recognized for his originality by solving the problem of combinatorialism based on his strong intuition about algebra.In addition, there are about 10 other difficulties that Professor Heo solved, including the Briroski conjecture.
Meanwhile, the four winners included Ukraine’s Marina Viazowska, who was named the second woman to win the Fields Medal.
The winner will receive a gold medal and about 13,000 dollars in prize money.
EJ SONG
ASIA JOURNAL
