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Caucher Birkar, Alessio Figalli, Peter Scholze and Akshay Venkatesh have taken home the most prestigious award in mathematics for their various contributions to the field. At the opening event of the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians, the four winners were announced and shared their personal stories and research.

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Ann ICM press conference featured Fields medal winners Akshay Venkatesh, Alessio Figalli and Peter Scholze, along with Gauss prize winner David Donoho, Chern medal winner Masaki Kashiwara and Nevanlinna Prize winner Constantinos Daskalakis. These math geniuses shared their past experiences of feeling joy in math and posed with their new metalware.

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Constantinos Daskalakis, 37, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the winner of the Nevanlinna award. He received the award at the 2018 opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro. Daskalakis’ current work focuses on game theory and mechanism design. He develops algorithmic and mathematical tools to understand strategic behavior in human games. The work of mathematician Constantinos Daskalakis is his life-long homage to his Greek heritage.

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Stanford University professor David Donoho won the 2018 Gauss prize in recognition of remarkable mathematical contributions that have generated important applications beyond the mathematical field. The winner was announced this morning at the opening ceremony of ICM 2018 by the International Mathematical Union (IMU) President Shigefumi Mori.

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Emeritus Professor at Kyoto University, Masaki Kashiwara has won the Chern Medal at ICM 2018. The winner was announced this morning during the conference opening ceremony by President of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) Shigefumi Mori who commended his “outstanding and fundamental contribution to algebraic analysis and representation theory in his career spanning almost fifty years.”

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The target audience might be children, but that hasn’t stopped a group of four adult men from picking up the brightly-coloured, sizeable tetris cushions and trying to build with them. There are just seven pieces, but it’s possible to make as many as 240 different shapes from them according to the instructors standing nearby. Under the watchful eye of the play area’s monitors, the men – four research scholars at the Indian Institutes of Technology – have been pushing corners of the 3D tetris set together for ten minutes. The shape they are trying to make is on a piece of paper pinned up behind them, and even their instructor seems to be having trouble.

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At 8.30AM on the first day of the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), crowds were already pouring into into the opening talk. The event, which takes place very four years, is one of the largest and most important for the global mathematics community. Its 2018 edition, against the backdrop of Rio de Janeiro’s beaches and mountains, is the first time it has ever taken place in the southern hemisphere since its first incarnation in the 1890s. Mathematicians from all over the world file steadily into arena. Those who have already taken their seats stare at the screen in anticipation, where close-ups of brightly colours textures complement the soundtrack of bird and insect noises echoing across the dimly-lit space.

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