August 14, 2014
Zaina Kahuk
News Writer
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Stanford University professor, Maryam Mirzakhani, has become the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal, known as the “Nobel Prize of Math.” She was honored for 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, the surfaces of doughnuts and of hyperbolic objects.” The Fields Medal was also presented for the first time to a mathematician from Latin America, Artur Avila. The other two winners of the award were Manjul Bhargava from Princeton University and Martin Hairer of the University of Warwick. All winners will receive $13,700.
