June Huh, One of Four Fields Medalists 2022

(필즈상은 '수학(분야)의 노벨상'으로 불린다. 4년마다 주어진다.)

 

 

뉴욕 타임즈: Fields Medals in Mathematics Won by Four Under Age 40

 

 

"It was only in his last year of college, when he was 23, that he

discovered math again. That year, Heisuke Hironaka, a Japanese

mathematician who had won a Fields Medal in 1970, was a visiting

professor at Seoul National.

 

Dr. Hironaka was teaching a class about algebraic geometry, and

Dr. Huh, long before receiving a Ph.D., thinking he could write an

article about Dr. Hironaka, attended."

 

"At Illinois, he started the work that brought him to prominence in

the field of combinatorics, an area of math that figures out the

number of ways things can be shuffled."

 

"Using tools from his work with Dr. Hironaka, Dr. Huh proved

Read’s conjecture, which described the mathematical properties of

these chromatic polynomials.

 

In 2015, Dr. Huh, together with Eric Katz of Ohio State University

and Karim Adiprasito of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,

proved the Rota Conjecture, which involved more abstract

combinatorial objects known as matroids instead of triangles and

other graphs."

 

 

Dr. une Huh (사진: 위 기사에서)