Professor Ngo Bao Chau (standing) of University of Chicago, USA, and Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics. (Photo: VOV)

The other members elected this year are Professor Laure Saint-Raymond of France’s Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES), Professor Peter Sarnak of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, USA, and Professor Ya-xiang Yuan of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

Established in 1865, the London Mathematical Society is one of the world’s oldest mathematical associations.