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Medal stolen shortly after being awarded
    2018-08-06  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

A FIELDS MEDAL, regarded as the Nobel prize for mathematics, was stolen minutes after it was awarded to a Cambridge professor Wednesday.

Caucher Birkar, an Iranian Kurdish mathematician, was one of the four joint winners of the prestigious honor at the International Congress of Mathematics, which was held for the first time in crime-ridden Rio. Yet within minutes of receiving the award, Dr. Birkar noticed that his briefcase containing the gold medal, his wallet and his cell phone was missing, the Brazilian newspaper O Globo reported.

Security officials at the congress venue found the empty briefcase under a bench in a nearby pavilion. Police have identified two potential suspects from security camera footage.

The organizing committee of the event, held every four years, said it “profoundly regrets” the incident. “Images recorded at the event are being analyzed. The organizing committee is cooperating with local police authorities in their investigation,” it said in a statement.

Dr. Birkar, who was born and raised in Kurdistan Province in northwestern Iran, moved to England in 2000, after applying for political asylum while finishing his undergraduate degree in Tehran.

He completed a doctorate at the University of Nottingham, and developed theories that have solved long-standing conjectures, according to the University of Cambridge, where he now holds a professorship.

While studying at Tehran University, Dr. Birkar would look up at pictures of Fields Medal winners on the walls of his math club, he told Quanta magazine in an interview.

Dr. Birkar is Cambridge University’s 11th Fields medalist.

In his lifetime, the Kurds, a sizable minority in several countries, have suffered the ravages of war in Iran, Iraq and Syria.

(SD-Agencies)

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