The International Mathematical Union Five Awards ceremony was held at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland, on July 5, 2022. Four of the Fields Medal winners are:

Hugo Duminil-Copin | University of Geneva

June Huh | Princeton University

James Maynard | University of Oxford

Maryna Viazovska | EPFL in Switzerland

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Prof. Maria Alessandra Ragusa 
Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy

If you happen to have a box of spaghetti in your pantry, try this experiment: Pull out a single spaghetti stick and hold it at both ends. Now bend it until it breaks. How many fragments did you make? If the answer is three or more, pull out another stick and try again. Can you break the noodle in two? If not, you're in very good company.

As an embryo develops, tissues bend into complex three-dimensional shapes that lead to organs. Epithelial cells are the building blocks of this process forming, for example, the outer layer of skin. They also line the blood vessels and organs of all animals.

How did the zebra get its stripes, or the leopard its spots? Humankind has been trying to answer such questions since our earliest recorded days, and they resonate throughout the extant mythologies and folklores of an earlier world. In modern times, we've looked to mathematical models and most recently to genomic science to uncover the explanation of how patterns form in living tissues, but a full answer has proven particularly hard to get at.