Mathematician of the first Iranian women received the Fields Medal – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, Aug. 13 – RIA Novosti. Professor at Stanford University, United States of Iranian origin Mirzakhanov Mariam (Maryam Mirzakhani) became the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal for the entire 78-year history of its existence, the agency reports Wednesday Reuters.

According to the website of the International Mathematical Union, Mirzakhanov noted for its “outstanding contribution to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their spatial modules”.

Mirzakhanov hoped that her achievement will inspire young women scientists and mathematicians who in the future could also receive this kind of award.

The Fields Prize (English. Fields Medal) – an international prize and medal, which are awarded every 4 years each International Congress of Mathematicians to two, three or four young mathematicians not over 40 years of age (or have reached the 40th anniversary of the year award). Prize and Medal is named after John Fields, who as president of the VII International Congress of Mathematicians held in 1924 in Toronto, offered at each subsequent Congress to award two mathematicians gold medal in recognition of their outstanding performance.

Among the winners Fields Medal is Russian mathematics Sergei Novikov, Grigory Margulis, Vladimir Drinfeld, Yefim Zelmanov, Maxim Kontsevich and Vladimir Voevodsky. In 2006, the prize has been awarded yet another graduate of St. Petersburg State University – Grigory Perelman, who proved the Poincare theory. He, however, declined the award.