‘Geometry can be very simple, but totally deep’: meet top maths prizewinner Claire Voisin
Voisin won this year’s Crafoord Prize in Mathematics for research inspired by string theory, and work on a million-dollar unsolved problem.
Last week, mathematician Claire Voisin was awarded the 2024 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics — one of the top awards in the field.
Voisin, who is based at the Jussieu Institute of Mathematics in Paris, studies algebraic geometry, a field of research concerning geometric figures — called varieties — that are defined by algebraic equations. The prototypical example is the equation x2 + y2 = 1, which defines a circle.
She has been described as the world’s foremost expert on the still-unsolved Hodge conjecture, an algebraic-geometry problem that concerns the nature of the varieties that are contained inside a larger variety. The conjecture is one of the Millennium Prize Problems — seven mathematical questions that each carry a US$1-million prize for the first person to solve them.
Voisin has also worked on questions that arose from the speculative ideas from physics called string theory. She spoke to Nature about some of her best-known work.
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