Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, a professor at Stanford University, has become the first recipient of the Fields Medal, an award considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the mathematical world. Mirzakhani is one of four winners of this prestigious laurel, which is awarded by the International Mathematical Union to outstanding talents under the age of 40.
Maryam Mirzakhani today he says that more time than he devotes mathematicians, the more excited she is. But while still studying at Harvard she was more inclined to h literature, but solving mathematical problems appealed to her more than the written word. And how right she was when she chose mathematics, mathematics Oscar it's just not like that, especially since that's how it went the highest honor in mathematics, which received its new laureates at the mathematical congress in Seoul, in the hands at all the first women. Namely, Maryam is the one and only representative of the fairer sex 56 previous winners, as many as there have been since the year 1936. With the arrival of a woman on this man's list, she is in the world A woman from Tehran sent a clear message that it is not wrong to dream, even if the dreams seem so wild. Someone has to break the ice, and only until then does it seem impossible.
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The other three Fields Medal winners are Arthur Avila (Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu, France), Manjul Bhargava (Princeton University, USA) and Martin Hairer (University of Warwick, UK).
