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The Fields Medal has a cutoff age of 40 years old.

• jebarker 1y ago
  My understanding is that that’s more about encouraging younger mathematicians rather than an expectation that older ones won’t produce anything worthy.
  • ameliaquining 1y ago
    Sort of. It's complicated and there was politics involved. https://web.archive.org/web/20210324121533/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00513-8 https://web.archive.org/web/20210324121533/https://www.natur...
    • jebarker 1y ago
      Thanks for sharing, it's much more complicated than I believed.