This year's Fields Medals should be of great interest for this crowd: most of the winners study concepts very familiar to computer scientists, while their metho

This year's Fields Medals should be of great interest for this crowd: most of the winners study concepts very familiar to computer scientists, while their methods touch upon the deepest, most intricate areas of pure mathematics. From sphere packings, prime numbers and lattices to percolation theory to information complexity to point configurations and much more. They are studied using representation theory, matroids, automorphic forms, real algebraic geometry and probabilistic methods among many other tools. People should check both the popular expositions in the link and the laudatio for interesting information. [paraphrased from a comment I made in another submission]