What is James Maynard (mathematician)?
{{Infobox scientist | name = James Maynard | image = James_Maynard_MFO_2013.jpg | image_size = | caption = Maynard in 2013 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1987|6|10}} | birth_place = [[Chelmsford]], Essex, England | death_date = | death_place = | fields = Mathematics | workplaces = {{ubl|[[University of Montreal]] | [[University of Oxford]]}} | alma_mater = {{ubl|[[University of Cambridge]] | [[University of Oxford]]}} | doctoral_advisor = [[Roger Heath-Brown]] | doctoral_students = | known_for = Work on [[prime gap]]s | awards = {{plainlist|class=nowrap| * [[SASTRA Ramanujan Prize]] (2014) * [[Whitehead Prize]] (2015) * [[EMS Prize]] (2016) * [[Cole Prize]] in Number Theory (2020) * [[Fields Medal]] (2022) }} }} '''James Alexander Maynard''' (born 10 June 1987) is a British mathematician. His works focused in [[analytic number theory]]. In 2017, he was hired as a Research Professor at [[Oxford University]].<ref>{{cite web|date=4 April 2018|title=James Maynard appointed Research Professor and receives a Wolfson Merit Award from the Royal Society|url=https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/26989|access-date=4 April 2018|archive-date=4 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180404202247/https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/26989|url-status=live}}</ref> He was awarded the [[Fields Medal]] in 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/number-theorist-james-maynard-wins-the-fields-medal-20220705/|title=A Solver of the Hardest Easy Problems About Prime Numbers|first=Erica|last=Klarreich|publisher=[[Quanta Magazine]]|website=quantamagazine.org|date=5 July 2022|accessdate=5 July 2022|archive-date=5 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705072059/https://www.quantamagazine.org/number-theorist-james-maynard-wins-the-fields-medal-20220705/|url-status=live}}</ref> He was elected a member of the [[Academia Europaea]] in 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae