Laureate – KENJI FUKAYA

 

KENJI FUKAYA

2025
MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

 

THE SHAW PRIZE IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES 2025

 

is awarded to

 

KENJI FUKAYA

 

for his pioneering work on symplectic geometry, especially for envisioning the existence of a category — nowadays called the Fukaya category — consisting of Lagrangians on a symplectic manifold, for leading the monumental task of constructing it, and for his subsequent ground-breaking and impactful contributions to symplectic topology, mirror symmetry, and gauge theory.

 

27 May 2025

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