Hugo Duminil-Copin, winner of the Fields Medal: “I have always been torn between maths and physics”

He seems naturally jovial, at ease, relaxed.

Frenchman Hugo Duminil-Copin, 36, is one of four mathematicians honored on Tuesday with the Fields Medal, an award comparable to the Nobel in his discipline.

But the researcher from the Institute for Higher Scientific Studies (IHES), professor at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), does not seem disturbed by this new notoriety.

And takes pleasure in detailing the contours of his area of ​​expertise: probabilities.

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