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On 13 August 2014, Mirzakhani was honored with the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics, [ 8 ][ 9 ] becoming the first woman to win the prize, as well as the first Iranian. [ 10 ] The award committee cited her work in "the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces ".
Maryam Mirzakhani, a professor of mathematics at Stanford, has been awarded the 2014 Fields Medal, the most prestigious honor in mathematics.
Jul 17, 2017 · A quarter century later, in 2014, she became the first woman (and the first Iranian) to win the Fields Medal, math’s highest honor.
- Siobhan Roberts
Aug 12, 2014 · Mirzakhani is the first woman to win a Fields Medal. The gender imbalance in mathematics is long-standing and pervasive, and the Fields Medal, in particular, is ill-suited to the career arcs of many female mathematicians.
Oct 12, 2017 · Mirzakhani’s award of the Fields medal for her ‘stunning advances in the theory of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces’ in the same year (2014) made international headlines. Awarded once every four years to mathematicians under the age of 40, Mirzakhani was the first Iranian to win this coveted honour.
Aug 13, 2014 · Iranian Maryam Mirzakhani, a professor at Stanford, was among four winners of the Fields Medal. She said she hopes the win "encourages young female scientists and mathematicians."
Jul 15, 2017 · In 2014, she became the first woman to receive the Fields Medal, the highest honor in mathematics and equivalent in reputation to a Nobel Prize.
