This article includes a list of countries by number of Fields Medal winners. That is, a list of countries ranked by their Fields Medalists.
The figures only include Fields Medals awarded up to and including 3 August 2018 by their country of birth and citizenship at the time of the announcement of the award.
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| Rank
|
Country
|
Fields medals (#)
|
Fields medalists (2018)
|
| 1 |
 United States |
13 |
Curtis T. McMullen, John G. Thompson, David Mumford, Charles Fefferman, Daniel Quillen, William Thurston, Michael Freedman, Edward Witten, Jesse Douglas, Paul Cohen, Stephen Smale, John Milnor, Manjul Bhargava
|
| 2 |
 France |
12 |
Laurent Lafforgue, Cédric Villani, Alain Connes, Pierre-Louis Lions, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, Laurent Schwartz, Jean-Pierre Serre, René Thom, Ngo Bao Chau, Artur Avila, Wendelin Werner, Alexander Grothendieck
|
| 3 |
 Russia |
8 |
Maxim Kontsevich, Vladimir Voevodsky, Andrei Okounkov, Grigori Perelman (refused), Stanislav Smirnov, Sergei Novikov, Grigory Margulis, Efim Zelmanov
|
| 4 |
 United Kingdom |
5 |
Richard Borcherds, Timothy Gowers, Alan Baker, Simon Donaldson, Michael Francis Atiyah
|
| 5 |
 Japan |
3 |
Heisuke Hironaka, Shigefumi Mori, Kunihiko Kodaira
|
| 6 |
 Germany |
2 |
Gerd Faltings, Peter Scholze
|
| 6 |
 Italy |
2 |
Enrico Bombieri, Alessio Figalli
|
| 6 |
 Belgium |
2 |
Pierre Deligne, Jean Bourgain
|
| 6 |
 Australia |
2 |
Terence Tao, Akshay Venkatesh[n 1]
|
| 6 |
 Iran |
2 |
Maryam Mirzakhani[1][2], Caucher Birkar[n 2]
|
| 11 |
 Ukraine |
1 |
Vladimir Drinfeld
|
| 11 |
 Switzerland |
1 |
Martin Hairer[n 3]
|
| 11 |
 Austria |
1 |
Martin Hairer[n 3]
|
| 11 |
 Norway |
1 |
Atle Selberg
|
| 11 |
 Sweden |
1 |
Lars Hörmander
|
| 11 |
 Finland |
1 |
Lars Ahlfors
|
| 11 |
 New Zealand |
1 |
Vaughan Jones
|
| 11 |
 Canada |
1 |
Manjul Bhargava
|
| 11 |
 Brazil |
1 |
Artur Avila
|
| 11 |
 Israel |
1 |
Elon Lindenstrauss
|
| 11 |
 Vietnam |
1 |
Ngô Bảo Châu
|
See also[edit]
- ↑ Akshay Venkatesh was born in India but is an Australian citizen
- ↑ Caucher Birkar was born in a Kurdish village in Iran and attended the University of Tehran but sought political asylum and now has British citizenship.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Martin Hairer was born in Switzerland, but has Austrian citizenship.
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