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FIELDS MEDALS AWARDED MATHEMATICIANS: An excellent collection of six signed 6 x 4 cards, some with s... - FIELDS MEDALS AWARDED MATHEMATICIANS: An excellent collection of six signed 6 x 4 cards, some with statements, by various Field Medals awarded mathematicians, comprising Lars Valerian Ahlfors (1907-1996) Finnish Scientific, `Lars V. Ahlfors´, 1936 Award. Well remembered for his works on Riemann surfaces and on complex analysis; Laurent Schwartz (1915-2002) French Mathematician. 1950 Award. He pioneered the theory of distributions, giving a meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function; René Thom (1923-2002) French Topologist. 1958 Award. Worldwide famous for his work as founder of Catastrophe Theory. Thom states `What limits the authentic, is not fake, it is the insignificant.´; Lars Hörmander (1931-2012) Swedish Mathematician, called ''the foremost contributor to the modern theory of linear partial differential equations''. 1962 Award. A five lines kind inscription; Stephen Smale (1930- ) American Mathematician. Awarded the Fields Medal in 1966, and Michael Atiyah (1929-2019) British-Lebanese Mathematician specialising in geometry. President of the Royal Society 1990-95) and founding Director of the Isaac Newton Institute 1990-96. 1966 Award. All are boldly signed. The full names of the awarded mathematicians are written in a collector´s hand at the base of the cards. VG, 6 £300-400 The Fields Medal, widely regarded as the mathematician´s Nobel Prize, is considered one of the highest honors a mathematician can receive. The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years.