Why was the 1982 Field's medal awarded in 1983? On what date was it awarded? Who received the awards?

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Interesting... The Fields medal is awarded every 4 years on the occasion of International Congress of Mathematicians, usually around August of that year. The 1982 congress was planned to be held at Warsaw, Poland, but during that time martial law had been declared and the country was in turmoil. Eventually the IMU decided to postpone the congress by one year, to August 16-24th, 1983.

But, just to clarify the 1982 Fields medal winners were actually announced in early August 1982, also in Warsaw in a general IMU assembly. Online references to the delay of the 1982 congress is spartan, but here is one: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=158923§ioncode=1 The winners of the 1982 Field's medal: Alain Connes of France, William Thurston and Shing-Tung Yau of USA. http://www.mathunion.org/general/prizes/fields/prizewinners/ http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Yau.html Sources: cited boxing's Recommendations Modern Mathematics in the Light of the Fields Medal Amazon List Price: $11.00 Used from: $59.82 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 4 reviews) .

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