Chinese Mathematicians Wang Hong and Yunqing Tang Win the Mathematics “Oscar”
The 2026 Breakthrough Prize announced its New Horizons in Mathematics winners—Wang Hong, Yunqing Tang, Otis Chodosh and Vesselin Dimitrov—highlighting Wang's solution of the Kakeya conjecture, Tang and Dimitrov's breakthroughs on the unbounded denominators conjecture and a new irrationality result, and Chodosh's advances in differential geometry, with a total prize pool of $18.75 million.
