On October 28, young female mathematician Wang Hong won the 2025 Salem Prize, which is regarded as the benchmark for the Fields Medal, the highest award in mathematics.According to statistics, from 1968 to 2024, among the 56 Salem Medal winners, 10 Fields Medal winners were born.
The reason why Wang Hong won the Salem Prize this time is "for her role in solving major open problems in harmonic analysis and geometric measure theory."
Good things come in pairs! The day before (October 27), she also won the ICCM Mathematics Gold Award. ICCM has the reputation of "Fields Medal in Chinese Mathematics".
In February this year, Wang Hong and her colleagues used a 127-page paper to announce the proof of the "Kakeya Conjecture", a classic problem that has troubled the mathematics community for hundreds of years, causing a sensation in the mathematics community.
In addition, she also made important contributions to issues such as the Fourier limit conjecture and the Falconer distance set conjecture.
This year alone, two articles were published in the four major mathematics journals.
It is worth mentioning that in June this year, Professor Wang Hong gave a lecture in the academic lecture hall of Peking University, and the venue was packed with people. Among them, Wei Dongyi, a researcher at the School of Mathematical Sciences at Peking University, sat in the front row for many days in a row and listened to the lectures.
Public reports show that Wang Hong was born in Shasha Town, Pingle County, Guilin City, Guangxi in 1991. She graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Peking University with a bachelor's degree. In 2014, she received a master's degree in mathematics from the Ecole Polytechnique of Paris and the University of Paris-Sud. In 2019, she received a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
