With her homeland mired in war, the sphere-packing number theorist Maryna Viazovska has become the second woman to win a Fields Medal in the award’s history.
Inside, the office is spare, pragmatic: just a computer, printer, chalkboard, papers, and books, with few personal effects. The place where the magic happens seems not so much a physical location in spacetime as a higher-dimensional world of abstractions in Viazovska’s mind.
The earliest memory is of walking with her grandmother as a 3-year-old from her family’s utilitarian Khrushchyovka apartment building , down a wide boulevard to a monument for the geochemist Vladimir Vernadsky, where her grandmother lifted her up and tossed her into the air. The late 1980s were a difficult time in the Soviet Union, said Viazovska, now 37. “It took people many, many hours to buy even basic things.
Describing her father as a former chemist who is “extremely energetic,” with “entrepreneurship spirits,” Viazovska recalled how he left his job and embraced the new reality by starting one small business after another. That new reality was chaotic and unpredictable, she said. “One day, you don’t have much. Then there is another opportunity, and you have a lot.”
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