07/27/2026
One of this year's Fields Medal recipients is John Pardon. He has a Math Meet connection: He came to the Math Meet in 2006 and won second place on the level 3 written test. Yay! The Fields Medal is a prestigious international award given to mathematicians for especially significant contributions to our knowledge of math. John's award-winning research is in symplectic geometry, a subject that grew out of the Hamiltonian formulation of classical Newtonian physics.
John Pardon sees connections between different areas of math that others don’t. For that vision, he’s now been awarded a Fields Medal.