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In mathematics, the Fields Medal is awarded to Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman and Hong Wang (pictured).
Official IMU sources list Yu Deng, John Pardon, and Jacob Tsimerman as 2026 Fields Medal recipients; Hong Wang is listed by the IMU as a 2026 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize recipient instead.
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The sentence incorrectly includes Hong Wang among the 2026 Fields Medal winners.
The International Mathematical Union's official awards page for 2026 lists the Fields Medal recipients as Yu Deng, John Pardon, and Jacob Tsimerman. In a separate official IMU source, Hong Wang is identified as a recipient of the 2026 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize, not the Fields Medal.
So while Hong Wang did receive a major mathematics prize in 2026, the specific claim that she was awarded the Fields Medal is contradicted by the IMU's own published award listings.
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- International Mathematical Union (IMU) | Advancing Mathematics Worldwide
The recipients of the IMU Awards 2026 for mathematical achievement Fields Medal › Yu Deng John Pardon Jacob Tsimerman
- IMU News 137: May 2026 | International Mathematical Union (IMU)
The 2026 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize laureates are ... Hong Wang, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques and New York University, 'for work in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, and geometric measure theory...'