Maryam Becomes 1st Female Ever To Win Nobel Prize In Mathematics
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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