Laureate
Kenji Fukaya
Born 1959 · Japan · Male
Awards
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2025
Shaw Prize — Mathematical Sciences
MathFor 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.