"Wang joins an exceptionally small group of women to receive the Fields Medal. Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani was the first, in 2014, followed by Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska in 2022. No woman received the award at all in the nearly 80 years before Mirzakhani's win."
Fields Medal 2026 winners include mathematician Hong Wang — the third woman to ever win in the award's 90-year history — for solving decades-old needle conjectureHong Wang, a mathematician at New York University, helped solve a decades-old geometry problem and is now the third woman to win math's most prestigious award.www.livescience.com