Ukrainian Marina Vyazovskaya became the winner of the Fields Medal, a prestigious mathematical award.

By decision of the International Mathematical Union, the Frenchman Hugo Duminil-Copen, Briton James Maynard and American Jun Heo also became the winners of the prize.. Vyazovskaya was nominated by the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne. She became the second female mathematician in the world to receive such an award..

Marina Vyazovskaya is a graduate of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and currently works at the Federal Polytechnic School in Lausanne. Vyazovskaya, 37, was awarded the Fields Medal for solving ball packing problems in high-dimensional spaces..

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Fields Medal established in 1936.

The International Congress of Mathematicians presents it once every four years to several mathematicians under the age of 40 for " The first woman to win a Fields Medal was Mariam Mirzakhani from Iran.. She received the medal in 2014.

The congress, at which the award was traditionally awarded, was supposed to be held in St. Petersburg, but after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian city was deprived of the right to host the event, which as a result took place in an online format.