2026 Fields Medal Winners Allegedly Leak from ICM Site Code — Two Peking University Alumni in Same Year
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2026 Fields Medal winners allegedly leaked from ICM website source code; two Peking University alumni in same class.
The 2026 Fields Medal winners list allegedly leaked from the International Congress of Mathematicians website. A user scraped the ICM site's front-end schedule code and found a laureate-lecture list marked "HIDDEN", containing Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman, and Hong Wang.
Two Chinese mathematicians, both Peking University alumni, in the same year — this has never happened before. If the July 23 ICM ceremony confirms, it will be the most significant Chinese moment for the Fields Medal since its 1936 founding.
Wang Hong was already a heavy favorite: her collaboration with Joshua Zahl on a 127-page paper officially resolved the century-old three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture, published February 2025 and picking up multiple major math prizes. If confirmed, she becomes the third woman ever to receive the Fields Medal.
Yu Deng also comes from Peking University, graduating from PKU's Math Class of 2010. Jacob Tsimerman specializes in arithmetic geometry and number theory; John Pardon works in low-dimensional topology. In prior Reddit math discussions, both trailed only behind Wang in prediction volume.
Polymarket odds for this prediction have hit 95% — betting markets consider the list authentic. The direct cause of the ICM leak: the HIDDEN attribute in front-end code hides the DOM but not the data, one curl call pulls the entire laureate lecture list.
via Reddit / Phemex News / The Standard
Two Chinese mathematicians, both Peking University alumni, in the same year — this has never happened before. If the July 23 ICM ceremony confirms, it will be the most significant Chinese moment for the Fields Medal since its 1936 founding.
Wang Hong was already a heavy favorite: her collaboration with Joshua Zahl on a 127-page paper officially resolved the century-old three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture, published February 2025 and picking up multiple major math prizes. If confirmed, she becomes the third woman ever to receive the Fields Medal.
Yu Deng also comes from Peking University, graduating from PKU's Math Class of 2010. Jacob Tsimerman specializes in arithmetic geometry and number theory; John Pardon works in low-dimensional topology. In prior Reddit math discussions, both trailed only behind Wang in prediction volume.
Polymarket odds for this prediction have hit 95% — betting markets consider the list authentic. The direct cause of the ICM leak: the HIDDEN attribute in front-end code hides the DOM but not the data, one curl call pulls the entire laureate lecture list.
via Reddit / Phemex News / The Standard
