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Maryam Mirzakhani

August 14, 2014 in Modern Worthies

Maryam Mirzakhani

Expert mathematician

Stanford’s Maryam Mirzakhani wins Fields Medal Maryam Mirzakhani is the first woman to ever win the Fields Medal – known as the “Nobel Prize of mathematics” – in recognition of her contributions to the understanding of the symmetry of curved surfaces. Awesome — and congratulations, Maryam!

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