Fields Medalists Deng Yu (1st L) and Wang Hong (1st R), both Chinese mathematicians, John Pardon (2nd L), an American mathematician, and Jacob Tsimerman, a Canadian mathematician, pose for a group photograph at the opening ceremony of the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia, the United States, July 23, 2026. Chinese mathematicians Deng Yu and Wang Hong were awarded the Fields Medals at the opening ceremony of the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians held here on Thursday, marking the first time Chinese mathematicians have won the prestigious honor. The other recipients of the 2026 Fields Medals are American John Pardon and Canada"s Jacob Tsimerman. (Xinhua/Li Rui)

　　PHILADELPHIA, United States, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Chinese mathematicians Deng Yu and Wang Hong were awarded the Fields Medals at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians opened here on Thursday, marking the first time Chinese mathematicians have won the prestigious honor.

　　At the opening ceremony of the congress, held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, the International Mathematical Union announced that Deng won the medal for his work in partial differential equations (PDEs), while Wang won the medal for her work in harmonic analysis and geometric measure theory.

　　"It"s a great honor to have my name listed after all those great mathematicians I"ve been always admiring," Deng said at a press conference after the ceremony. "It"s a really important recognition of myself, of my work, my work with collaborators, and the field of PDEs and also the probability that I"m representing."

　　"Roughly speaking, what I have been doing with collaborators is basically to connect the microscopic description of things, of the universe to the macroscopic description," he added.