Amid Life’s Chaos, a Meticulous Mathematician Finds Stability

Mathematician Yu Deng has won the Fields Medal, mathematics' highest honor, for his work on random data problems. Per Quanta Magazine, Deng's research explores how structure and order can coexist with chaos and randomness. The Fields Medal, awarded every four years to mathematicians under forty, recognizes breakthroughs at the frontier of mathematics.

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