Stanford professor 1st woman to win 'Nobel Prize of mathematics'

Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - 23:30 in Mathematics & Economics

Iranian-born mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani on Wednesday became the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal, mathematics' equivalent to the Nobel Prize.

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