INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
called the 'Nobel Prize of mathematics,' had his prize stolen shortly after receiving it during a ceremony in Rio de Janeiro on
Wednesday.Caucher Birkar, a Kurdish refugee from Iran teaching at Cambridge University, put the gold medal, worth around $4,000, in a
briefcase and soon afterward realized that it had been stolen, according to event organizers.Security officials at the Riocentro venue,
Riocentro, found the empty briefcase in a nearby pavillion
Police reviewed security tapes and identified two potential suspects."The International Congress of Mathematicians is profoundly sorry about
the disappearance of the briefcase belonging to mathematician Caucher Birkar, which contained his Fields Medal from the ceremony this
Thomson Reuters 2018(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by TheIndianSubcontinent staff and is published from a
