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Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska wins Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics

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Viazovska, 37, is a Kyiv-born and raised professor at the Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne in Switzerland. She is the second woman in history to receive the Fields Medal, often described as the Nobel Prize of mathematics.

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