TY - BOOK AU - Atiyah, S. M AU - Atiyah, S. M AU - Iagolnitzer, Daniel AU - Chong, Chitat TI - Fields Medallists' lectures T2 - World Scientific series in 21th Century Mathematics, V. 1 SN - 9789814696180 U1 - 510 ATI PY - 2003/// CY - New Jersey PB - : World Scientific, KW - Mathematics KW - Mathematicians -- Biography KW - Fields Prizes KW - Mathematics -- Pre-Calculus KW - Mathematics -- Reference KW - Mathematics -- Essays N1 - 936: L.V. Ahlfors -- 1950: L. Schwartz -- 1954: K. Kodaira -- 1958: K.F. Roth, R. Thom -- 1962: L. Hörmander -- 1966: M.F. Atiyah, S. Smale -- 1970: A. Baker, S. Novikov -- 1974: D. Mumford -- 1978: G.A. Margulis -- 1982: A. Connes -- 1986: S.K. Donaldson, M.H. Freedman -- 1990: V.F.R. Jones, S. Mori, E. Witten -- 1994: J. Bourgain, P.L. Lions, J.C. Yoccoz, E.I. Zelmanov -- 1998: R.E Borcherds, W.T. Gowers, M. Kontsevich, C.T. McMullen -- 2002: L. Lafforgue, V. Voevodsky N2 - Although the Fields Medal does not have the same public recognition as the Nobel Prizes, they share a similar intellectual standing. It is restricted to the field of mathematics and an age limit of 40 has become an accepted tradition. This volume presents contributions from Fields Medallists ER -