14/08/2014
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An Iranian-born mathematician has become the first woman to win a prestigious Fields Medal, widely viewed as the Nobel Prize of mathematics.
Maryam Mirzakhani, a Harvard-educated mathematician and professor at Stanford University in California, was one of four winners announced by the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) at its conference in Seoul.
"This is a great honour. I will be happy if it encourages young female scientists and mathematicians," Professor Mirzakhani said.
"I am sure there will be many more women winning this kind of award in coming years."
Read more:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-13/maryam-mirzakhani/5669176
As an 8-year-old, Maryam Mirzakhani used to tell herself stories about the exploits of a remarkable girl. Every night at bedtime, her heroine would become mayor, travel the world or fulfill some other grand destiny.
Today, Mirzakhani — a 37-year-old mathematics professor at Stanford University — still writes elaborate stories in her mind. The high ambitions haven’t changed, but the protagonists have: They are hyperbolic surfaces, moduli spaces and dynamical systems. In a way, she said, mathematics research feels like writing a novel. “There are different characters, and you are getting to know them better,” she said. “Things evolve, and then you look back at a character, and it’s completely different from your first impression.”
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http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-a-tenacious-explorer-of-abstract-surfaces/
