#Fields Medal

A suspected leak from the International Congress of Mathematicians \(ICM\) website code reveals four potential 2026 Fields Medal winners: Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman, and Hong Wang. The leak, coming from hidden scheduling data, has sparked intense discussion and pushed prediction market probabilities to 95% on Polymarket. The Fields Medal is the most prestigious award in mathematics, awarded only every four years to mathematicians under 40. This leak, if confirmed, would prematurely reveal the winners, affecting the official announcement and generating significant buzz in the mathematical community. The four names were found in the ICM website&\x27;s front-end code as a hidden schedule entry labeled &\x27;HIDDEN&\x27;. Among them, Hong Wang is noted for her recent proof of the three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture, a major breakthrough. The Polymarket prediction market currently assigns a 95% probability to the listed names being the actual winners.