Fields Medalists / Nevanlinna Price Winner 1998

The winner of the Fields Medals are

  Richard E. Borcherds (Cambridge University; Kac-Moody algebras, automorphic forms),

  W. Timothy Gowers (Cambridge University; Banach space theory, combinatorics),

  Maxim Kontsevich (IHES Bures-sur-Yvette; mathematical physics, algebraic geometry and topology),

  Curtis T. McMullen (Harvard University; complex dynamics, hyperbolic geometry).

The winner of the Nevanlinna prize is

  Peter W. Shor (AT&T Labs Florham Park,New Jersey; quantum computation, computational geometry).

Special Tribute to Andrew Wiles

  Andrew J. Wiles (Princeton University)