Newspaper in China’s Guangxi Becomes Unlikely Collector's Item After Wang Hong's Fields Medal Win

Newspaper in China’s Guangxi becomes unlikely collector's item after Wang Hong's Fields Medal win

The Jul 25 edition of Guangxi Daily featured a front-page profile of hometown mathematician and Fields Medal winner Wang Hong. The headline’s layered wordplay has won praise and helped turn the copy into an unlikely keepsake.

Chinese-Born Fields Medal Winners Reignite Debate Over China’s Research System

Two Chinese-origin mathematicians, Hong Wang and Yu Deng, became the first pair of mathematicians of Chinese heritage to jointly receive the Fields Medal, widely regarded as the “Nobel Prize of mathematics,” the BBC reported.  Wang and Deng received the award alongside American mathematician John Pardon and Canadian mathematician Jacob Tsimerman. Each recipient received a prize […]

Newspaper featuring Fields Medal winner Wang Hong sparks buying frenzy in China

A front-page profile of Chinese mathematician Wang Hong, published by Guangxi Daily following her Fields Medal win, has sparked a rare rush to buy the print edition, with copies reselling for as much as 65 yuan (about $9.60).