I beez a negro. I can make shitty beastial noise that some people consider music, put a basketball through a hoop, smoke crack cocaine, commit lots of crime, eat fried chicken and watermellon ---but I just can't seem to be smart enough to win a fields medal , y0 ! The nigger race just beez too stupid and shiznit to win a damn mathematics fields medal so now I am going to commit suicide by smoking so much crack cocaine my heart will explode ! L8r ya'll
The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years.
The Fields Medal is regarded as one of the highest honors a mathematician can receive, and has been described as the mathematician's Nobel Prize,[1][2][3] although there are several key differences, including frequency of award, number of awards, and age limits. According to the annual Academic Excellence Survey by ARWU, the Fields Medal is consistently regarded as the top award in the field of mathematics worldwide,[4] and in another reputation survey conducted by IREG in 2013–14, the Fields Medal came closely after the Abel Prize as the second most prestigious international award in mathematics.[5][6]
The prize comes with a monetary award which, since 2006, has been CA$15,000.[7][8] The name of the award is in honour of Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields.[9] Fields was instrumental in establishing the award, designing the medal itself, and funding the monetary component.
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The Fields Medal has for a long time been regarded as the most prestigious award in the field of mathematics and is often described as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics.[1][2][3] Unlike the Nobel Prize, the Fields Medal is only awarded every four years. The Fields Medal also has an age limit: a recipient must be under age 40 on 1 January of the year in which the medal is awarded. This is similar to restrictions applicable to the Clark Medal in economics. The under-40 rule is based on Fields's desire that "while it was in recognition of work already done, it was at the same time intended to be an encouragement for further achievement on the part of the recipients and a stimulus to renewed effort on the part of others."[16] Moreover, an individual can only be awarded one Fields Medal; laureates are ineligible to be awarded future medals.[17]
The monetary award is much lower than the 8 million Swedish kronor given with each Nobel prize as of 2014.[18] Other major awards in mathematics, such as the Abel Prize and the Chern Medal, have larger monetary prizes compared to the Fields Medal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal
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