For His Sporting Approach to Math, a Fields Medal

The math department at the University of Geneva is usually quiet and still — that is, except when voices boom down the hall from the office of Hugo Duminil-Copin, a not infrequent occurrence. “We were known within the department for shouting at each other all the time, because we would get very excited about what we were doing,” said Ioan Manolescu, a mathematician at the University of Fribourg…

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