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Hong Wang

Hong Wang

MathematicsScience

She and Joshua Zahl cracked the 3D Kakeya conjecture — a geometry puzzle open for more than a century — and she's now widely tipped for the Fields Medal, math's Nobel.

Cracked a *109-year-old* math puzzleWon the 2026 Clay Research Award (April); Fields Medals announced July 23 at ICM Philadelphia

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