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The first woman to win the Fields Medal - the highest honor in mathematics
A woman has won the Fields Medal for the first time in its 76-year history.
Maryam Mirzakhani, 37, is a professor at Stanford University, and grew up in Tehran, Iran - making her also the first Iranian to get the award.
She received the Medal today during a ceremony at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul, South Korea.
She won for her 'outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.'
Known as 'the Nobel Prize in mathematics,' the Fields Medal is the award made famous in the movie Good Will Hunting when Robin Williams' character describes it as 'a really big deal.'
Read more from here:Stanford professor becomes the first woman to win the Fields Medal - the highest honor in mathematics | Mail Online
A woman has won the Fields Medal for the first time in its 76-year history.
Maryam Mirzakhani, 37, is a professor at Stanford University, and grew up in Tehran, Iran - making her also the first Iranian to get the award.
She received the Medal today during a ceremony at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul, South Korea.
She won for her 'outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.'
Known as 'the Nobel Prize in mathematics,' the Fields Medal is the award made famous in the movie Good Will Hunting when Robin Williams' character describes it as 'a really big deal.'
Read more from here:Stanford professor becomes the first woman to win the Fields Medal - the highest honor in mathematics | Mail Online
