The Medal Fields 2014 for the first time to a woman
For the first time since 1936, an Iranian woman won the most prestigious prize for mathematics, the Fields Medal
Maryam Mirzakhani is a famous Iranian maths professor, appreciated for her studies on dynamic systems and Riemann’s surfaces. She was the first Iranian student to obtain the maximum result in the International Mathematics Olympiads and she is a model for many Iranian STEM students.