South Korean President Park Geun-Hye hands
 over the prize to Manjul Bhargava

Manjul Bhargava and Subhash Khot, mathematicians of Indian origin, are among eight winners of the International Mathematical Union awards, announced in Seoul on Wednesday. Maryam Mirzakhani of Stanford University, from Iran, is the first woman to win the Fields Medal.

Canadian-American Manjul Bhargava, 40, a number theorist from Princeton University, is one of four winners of the Fields Medal. The other Fields Medalists are Arthur Avila of the Paris Diderot University-Paris 7 and Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro, from Brazil; Martin Hairer of the University of Warwick, from the U.K.

Dr. Khot gets the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, “for outstanding contributions in mathematical aspects of information sciences.”