Friday 15 August 2014

Iranian Muslim Woman Becomes First Female To Win "Mathematics Nobel Prize




Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani 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.

A female mathematician has won the most prestigious prize in math for the first time, a hugely symbolic breakthrough for gender equality in one of the most male-dominated areas of academic research.


http://rt.com/news/179920-iranian-woman-fields-medal/

http://time.com/3105056/math-prize-woman/

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