Meet Iranian Who is First Woman To Win The Nobel Prize For Maths

This Iranian-born mathematician has become the first woman to win a
prestigious Fields Medal, widely viewed as the Nobel Prize of
mathematics.

Maryam Mirzakhani, a Harvard-educated mathematician and professor at
Stanford University in California, was one of four winners announced
by the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) at its
conference in Seoul on Wednesday.

The award recognised Mirzakhani's sophisticated and highly original
contributions to the fields of geometry and dynamical systems,
particularly in understanding the symmetry of curved surfaces such as
spheres.