The Effect of the Fields Medal on My Research

The Fields Medal was created as an encouragement to younger mathematicians. Do you feel spurred on by it to do greater things and justify it? Does it put a pressure on you now when you think, gosh, the next paper I write, everyone's going to be looking at it on the Fields Medalist now?" What effect has it had on you so far? It's difficult to say because even a year later I think I'm still slightly coming to terms with it," he says.