Alessio Figalli studies optimal transport, a field of math that ranges from the movements of clouds to the workings of chatbots. By Siobhan Roberts The words “optimal” and “optimize” derive from the ...

Alessio Figalli, one year after the Fields Medal. Short film, 2019 (in English with subtitles). Credits: IMU / ETH Zurich. Footage may be used for editorial purposes as long as the connection to ETH ...

In the company of Alessio Figalli, you get a sense that everything is taken care of. The young Italian mathematician is tall, fit and stylish, his R’s rolling off the tongue with an intoxicating Roman ...

Alessio Figalli is a recipient of the Fields Medal for his research into optimal transport theory. Who is this individual? What characterises his research? In what way is mathematics a creative ...

video: Alessio Figalli, Professor of Mathematics at ETH Zurich, was awarded the Fields Medal today for his outstanding contribution to mathematical research. The medal is to mathematics what the Nobel ...

Former UT Austin professor Alessio Figalli, one of four 2018 Fields Medal winners announced today, works in an area of mathematical analysis known as optimal transport. The Fields Medal is sometimes ...

The 2018 Fields Medal has been awarded to Alessio Figalli, a CNRS researcher since 2007 currently seconded to ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). This distinction, the most prestigious ...

In 2010, a 22-year-old graduate student named Peter Scholze won widespread acclaim after condensing a 288-page proof into a svelte 37 pages. Two years later, he was hired by his alma mater as a full ...

※ Editor's Note. At the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 1, 2018, the winners of the Fields Medal—the highest honor for a young ...