Fields Medalist June Huh: This time the Nobel Prize in Mathematics (Fields Medal) was given to four mathematicians, including 39-year-old Jun Huh. This medal is given once every four years for the best contribution to mathematics. This honor (medal) is given by the International Mathematical Union.
June Huh, 39, was born in 1983 in California, where her parents were completing their graduation. The family then moved to Seoul, South Korea, according to Quant Magazine. He was about 2 years old at that time. Jun Huh enrolled at Seoul National University (SNU) in 2002. She completed her PhD in 2009 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, before transferring to the University of Michigan in 2011, graduating in 2014 with a thesis written under the direction of Mircia Musta at the age of 31.
Joon Huh is a Korean-American mathematician, currently a professor at Princeton University. Previously, he was a professor at Stanford University and the Institute of Studies. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022. He has been given this honor for algebraic geometry and combinatorics theory.
Fields Medal 2022: Father caught cheating in maths
Jun Huh did not like mathematics as a child and always avoided it. School was painful for him. He loved to learn, but could not concentrate in class. His father once tried to teach him from a workbook, but instead of trying to solve the problems, he started copying from behind. While doing so, his father caught him. He gave up on mathematics at that time. During that time he was in 10th standard.
June Huh: Left studies in class 10th
Joon Huh’s father was a professor of statistics at Korea University, while his mother was a professor of Russian language at Seoul National University. He was not good at maths from the beginning. Bored and exhausted with the routine of studies, he dropped out of high school to focus on writing poetry.
Nobel Prize 2022: It took 6 years to graduate, the study of mathematics started from here
Huh it took six years to graduate. In that sixth year he enrolled in a class taught by the renowned Japanese mathematician Haisuke Hironaka, who won the Fields Medal in 1970. Hironaka was charismatic, and huh quickly became infatuated with him. This attraction was not of the professor but of mathematics. Originally the course was Introduction to Algebraic Geometry.
Fields Medal: Wanted to be a poet, became a mathematician
He wanted to become a poet since childhood. His interest in mathematics gradually increased with the mathematics taught by Haisuke Hironaka, and mathematics has become his favorite subject. Huh found that this kind of mathematics could give them what poetry could not.