Maryam Mirzakhani , Iranian muslim professor becomes first female ever to win a Nobel prize in Mathematics.

Maryam Mirzakhani , an Iranian mathematician wins the Fields Medal, considered the Nobel of math, and breaks into a male-dominated academic elite. All 52 previous winners of the award were men, and am sure this serves hugely symbolic breakthrough for gender equality in one of the most male-dominated areas of academic research. Continue …

The president of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) , Ingrid Daubechies describes Mirzakhani’s success was “hugely symbolic and he hopes it will encourage more women to get into mathematics because more women were needed . According to him , it has never happened before. Well , congrats to her and welcome to our world of mathematics.
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