What award did Maryam Mirzakhani win?

Fields Medal
Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in MathematicsBlumenthal AwardClay Research Award
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Why did Maryam Mirzakhani win the Fields Medal?

Awarding of Fields Medal Mirzakhani was awarded the Fields Medal in 2014 for “her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces”. The award was made in Seoul at the International Congress of Mathematicians on 13 August.

Who is the first female winner of the Fields Medal?

Maryam Mirzakhani
The medal, awarded at an event hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU), an ICSU Member, was awarded to Iranian national Mirzakhani for her work on complex geometry. She is one of four winners this year.

How many female recipients get field medals?

one female recipient
From its history since 1936, the Fields Medal has had only one female recipient: Maryam Mirzakhani from Iran, in 2014.

Has anyone won a Fields Medal and a Nobel prize?

The Australian mathematician Akshay Venkatesh has won the Fields medal, the mathematics equivalent of the Nobel prize. He becomes only the second Australian to win the prestigious prize, after Terence Tao in 2006.

How many Indians have won Fields Medal?

Akshay Venkatesh, an Indian-born Australian mathematician, was one of the four winners of the prestigious Fields medal, also known as the Nobel prize for math. The Fields medals are awarded every four years to the most promising mathematicians under the age of 40.

How did Maryam discover her love for mathematics?

Explanation: Born in 1977 and raised in Tehran, Mirzakhani loved reading novels as a child, and dreamed of becoming a writer. In high school, however, she discovered her love for solving math problems. “I got excited about it just as a challenge,” the science news website quoted her as saying.