Maryam mirzakhani

The publicity-averse Mirzakhani, who died Friday, is the only woman ever to win the Fields Medal, math’s highest honor.

Iranian mathematician who was the first woman to win the Fields medal

Maryam Mirzakhani: First Woman awarded the Fields Medal ― “Nobel Prize for Mathematics”. “Maryam was a brilliant mathematical theorist, and also a humble person who accepted honors only with the hope that it might encourage others to follow her path. Her contributions as both a scholar and a role model are significant and enduring, and she will be dearly missed here at Stanford and around the world.” Gone too soon at age 40.

Maryam Mirzakhani, the mathematician who this year became the first woman to win a Fields Medal, doodles her way through complex problems.

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