On October 28, young female mathematician Wang Hong won the 2025 Salem Prize. This award is seen as a barometer for the Fields Medal, the highest prize in the mathematics field.

Previously, on the 27th, Wang Hong also won the gold medal of the ICCM Mathematics Prize, which is known as the "Fields Medal of the Chinese mathematics community".

According to statistics, among the 56 Salem Prize winners from 1968 to 2024, 10 have become Fields Medalists. The Salem Prize is awarded every four years, and each time it is given to 2 to 4 mathematicians who have made outstanding contributions.

As of 2022, there have been 65 mathematicians who have received the Fields Medal, among whom two are Chinese-American mathematicians: Shing-Tung Yau, who won in 1982, and Terence Tao, who won in 2006.

Wang Hong teaches at Peking University. The Paper

Wang Hong was born in Guilin, Guangxi in 1991. In 2011, she graduated from the Department of Mathematics at Peking University, then went to France for further studies, obtaining a degree as an engineer from École Polytechnique and a master's degree in mathematics from Université Paris-Saclay in 2014. Afterwards, she went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to pursue her doctorate, completing her doctoral thesis under the guidance of renowned mathematician Larry Guth in 2019. After obtaining her doctorate, Wang Hong conducted postdoctoral research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and later joined the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as an assistant professor. Since 2023, she has been serving as an associate professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.

According to China Science News, currently, her main positions are professor at New York University and permanent professor in the mathematics department at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in France.

This February, Wang Hong and her colleagues announced the proof of the century-old classic problem "Kakeya Conjecture", causing a sensation in the mathematical community.

In June this year, Professor Wang Hong gave a math lecture at Peking University, where the audience was full. Among them, researcher Wei Dongyi from the School of Mathematical Sciences at Peking University sat in the front row for several consecutive days to listen.

Academician Shing-Tung Yau, a renowned mathematician and Fields Medalist, stated that Wang Hong is the greatest and most important Chinese scholar of the younger generation.

(Comprehensive sources: China Women's News, The Paper, Guangming Daily, China Science News, etc.)

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