Chinese mathematicians Hong Wang and Yu Deng won alongside John Pardon from the US and Jacon Tsimerman from Canada. The Fields Medal, regarded as the Nobel prize equivalent for mathematics, was handed out on Thursday in the US as human computations are increasingly challenged by AI. The hashtags "Fields Medal" and "First Chinese mathematicians to win Fields Medals" generated millions of views across various social media platforms from Weibo to Rednote. "For the Chinese mathematics community, this is a dream we have been hoping to realise for decades," said Shing-Tung Yau, the first ethnic Chinese Fields medallist. The Fields Medal is given every four years to outstanding mathematicians under the age of 40.