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Interviewed by Vicente Muñoz and Ulf Persson
Andrei Okounkov, Terence Tao, and Wendelin Werner received Fields Medals at the 2006
International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain (Grigory Perelman was also
awarded a medal but declined to accept it). These interviews with Okounkov, Tao, and
Werner were conducted via email by Vicente Muñoz and Ulf Persson in the fall of 2006
and originally appeared in the December 2006 issue of the European Mathematical
Society Newsletter.