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June Huh of Princeton University studied abstract spaces built from combinatorial objects, enabling him to make many breakthroughs, including the proof of the Dowling–Wilson conjecture for geometric lattices.
This video was presented during the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki on July 5, 2022, organized by the International Mathematical Union.
Read about Huh’s work in detail:
He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Medal, Quanta Magazine
A Path Less Taken to the Peak of the Math World, Quanta Magazine
The 2022 Fields Medal winners are:
