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28 OUR LIFE • January-February 2023 Photo © EPFL/Fred Merz (Lundi13) Meet Maryna Viazovska, Just weeks before russia launched its all-out war on Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainian mathema - tician Maryna Viazovska learned that she had become only the second woman to win the prestig - ious Fields Medal in the award’s 86-year history. The award is considered to be the highest honor for mathematicians, the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for mathematics. It is presented every four years to four outstanding mathematicians under the age of 40. Prof. Viazovska won the Fields Medal at age 37 by resolving a question that had stumped mathematicians for more than four centuries: how to pack spheres – such as oranges stacked in a pyramid – as close together as possible. Born in Kyiv on December 2, 1984, Maryna Viazovska developed a passion for mathematics at a young age. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, she moved to Germany to obtain her master’s at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (2007) before joining the University of Bonn, where she completed her PhD on modular forms in 2013. It was during her post-doctoral research at the Berlin Mathematical School and the Humboldt University of Berlin that she solved the sphere-packing problem in 8 and 24 dimensions. In Decem - ber 2016, she joined Switzerland’s prestigious École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) as a tenure-track professor. Just one year later, at 33 years of age, she was promoted to full professor. She holds the Chair of Number Theory at EPFL. Prof. Viazovska recently spoke with Our Life about the significance of her win, her life in Ukraine, and her hopes for the future. mathematician extraordinaire
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