Fields Medal won by woman for first time

By Núria Radó-Trilla. Maryam Mirzakhani has become the first woman to win the Fields Medal in the history of the world’s most prestigious mathematics prize.
Professor Mirzakhani, a professor of mathematics at Stanford University, becomes the first woman to win since the award was established in 1936.
The Iranian-born mathematician, who completed her PhD at Harvard in 2004, was recognised for her “outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces”. Her insights have integrated methods from diverse fields, such as algebraic geometry, topology and probability theory. More...