Alessio Figalli wins the "Nobel Prize of Mathematics"

Alessio Figalli, Professor of Mathematics at ETH Zurich, was awarded the Fields Medal today for his outstanding contribution to mathematical research. The medal is to mathematics what the Nobel Prize is to natural sciences. This is a great honour for Alessio Figalli, a mathematics professor at ETH Zurich since 2016. The International Mathematical Union ( IMU ) awarded the Fields Medal to the Italian citizen today at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2018 in Rio de Janeiro. The Fields Medal is the most prestigious award in the field of mathematics. Optimal transport - even in nature. The IMU conferred the award on Alessio Figalli for his contributions to the theory of optimal transport and its applications in partial differential equations, metric geometry, and probability.