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Fields Medal Winner Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani died
July 16 , 2017
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• An Iranian-born mathematician who was the first woman to win the coveted Fields Medal, has died in U.S.
• Ms. Mirzakhani, a Professor at Stanford University in California, died after the bone marrow cancer.
• In 2014, Ms. Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal, the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for Mathematics, which is awarded by the International Congress of Mathematicians.
• The award recognised her sophisticated and highly original contributions to the fields of geometry and dynamical systems, particularly in understanding the symmetry of curved surfaces such as spheres.
• Dr. Mirzakhani was one of four Fields winners in 2014, at the International Congress of Mathematicians in South Korea. Until then, all 52 recipients had been men.
• She was also the only Iranian ever to win the award.
• She had already won the 2009 Blumenthal Award for the Advancement of Research in Pure Mathematics and the 2013 Satter Prize of the American Mathematical Society.
Fields Medal
• The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years.
• The Fields Medal is sometimes viewed as the highest honor a mathematician can receive.
• The Fields Medal and the Abel Prize have often been described as the mathematician's "Nobel Prize".
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