Italy's Alessio Figalli has been
awarded the Fields Medal, which is the world's top award for
mathematics and is considered a sort of Nobel Prize for the
discipline.
"This prize gives me so much joy," Figalli told ANSA after
the announcement at the International Congress of Mathematicians
(ICM) in Rio de Janeiro.
"It is such a big thing that I'm struggling to believe that I
have received it".
Born in Rome 34 years ago, Figalli studied at Pisa's Scuola
Normale and he has been a lecturer at Zurich Polytechnic since
2016.
He is the second Italian to win the prize and the first in 44
years.
"It is a great stimulus for the future," Figalli said.
"It will motivate me to work in my research fields to try to
produce studies of a very high level".
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