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Iranian Mathematician Becomes First Woman To Receive The Fields Medal 
Mathematician Maryam Mizrakhani, originally from Iran and now at Stanford, is one of four winners of this years Fields Medal and the first woman to ever receive the award. The Fields Medal is generally considered the most prestigious professional award in mathematics.
A native of Iran, Maryam Mirzakhani is at Stanford University in California. She won for her work on the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.
Perhaps Maryams most important achievement is her work on dynamics, says Curtis McMullen of Harvard University. Many natural problems in dynamics, such as the three-body problem of celestial mechanics (for example, interactions of the Sun, the Moon and Earth), have no exact mathematical solution. Mirzakhani found that in dynamical systems evolving in ways that twist and stretch their shape, the systems trajectories are tightly constrained to follow algebraic laws, says McMullen.
He adds that Mirzakhanis achievements combine superb problem-solving ability, ambitious mathematical vision and fluency in many disciplines, which is unusual in the modern era, when considerable specialization is often required to reach the frontier.
Iranian mathematician becomes first woman to receive the Fields Medal | Feminist Philosophers
Mathematician Maryam Mizrakhani, originally from Iran and now at Stanford, is one of four winners of this years Fields Medal and the first woman to ever receive the award. The Fields Medal is generally considered the most prestigious professional award in mathematics.
A native of Iran, Maryam Mirzakhani is at Stanford University in California. She won for her work on the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.
Perhaps Maryams most important achievement is her work on dynamics, says Curtis McMullen of Harvard University. Many natural problems in dynamics, such as the three-body problem of celestial mechanics (for example, interactions of the Sun, the Moon and Earth), have no exact mathematical solution. Mirzakhani found that in dynamical systems evolving in ways that twist and stretch their shape, the systems trajectories are tightly constrained to follow algebraic laws, says McMullen.
He adds that Mirzakhanis achievements combine superb problem-solving ability, ambitious mathematical vision and fluency in many disciplines, which is unusual in the modern era, when considerable specialization is often required to reach the frontier.
Iranian mathematician becomes first woman to receive the Fields Medal | Feminist Philosophers
