Aug 2, 2018
Fields Medal, award known as Nobel Prize for mathematics, stolen from professor Caucher Birkar today
Fields Medal, award known as Nobel Prize for mathematics, stolen from professor Caucher Birkar today
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One of the winners of the award known as the Nobel Prize for mathematics had his gold medal stolen minutes after it was given to him. Caucher Birkar, a Kurdish refugee turned Cambridge University math professor, was among four winners of the prestigious Fields Medal on Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro.
It was an embarrassing debut for crime-ridden Rio, the first Latin American city ever to…
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