FIELDS MEDAL MATHEMATICS PRIZE WON BY WOMAN FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY

Fields medal mathematics prize won by woman for first time in its history Maryam Mirzakhani, who was born and raised in Iran, has been awarded the highest honour a mathematician can attain.

Maryam Mirzakhani          


Iranian-born mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, who has become the first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious prize in mathematics.
Finally a woman has won the world's most prestigious mathematics prize for the first time since the award was established nearly 80 years ago.
Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian maths professor at Stanford University in California, is the first female winner of the Fields Medal – often known as the Nobel Prize for mathematics.
The prize, worth 15,000 Canadian dollars (£8,000), rewards exceptional talents under the age of 40 once every four years by the International Mathematical Union. Between two and four prizes are announced each time.
(Excerpt from: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/aug/13/fields-medal-mathematics-prize-woman-maryam-mirzakhani)

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