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by WiSaGaN 1325 days ago
True. I am wondering whether this trend would make Fields Medal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal), the most prestigious award in mathematics, to change its requirement of that recipients must be of age 40 or less.
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They didn't break the rule for Andrew Wiles after he proved Fermat's Last Theorem, which was arguably the most notorious unsolved problem in all of mathematics.

So I expect them to stick to their rule.