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The Fields Medals 2018: The podcast

Caucher Birkar, Alessio Figalli, Peter Scholze and Akshay Venkatesh – the winners of the Fields medals, 2018 (PHOTO PABLO COSTA/ICM2018)

In this podcast we report on the prestigious Fields medals, which were awarded yesterday at the International Congress of Mathematicians, taking place in Rio de Janeiro. Find out what the medals were awarded for and hear from the medallists themselves.


This content was produced in a collaboration with the London Mathematical Society.


With kind support from the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.

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