Fields verðlaunin 2014Fields Medal 2014

Fields verðlaunin voru veitt 13. ágúst síðastliðinn (http://www.mathunion.org/general/prizes/2014) og nú er í fyrsta skipti kona á meðal verðlaunahafa. Hún heitir Maryam Mirzakhani og er frá Íran. Fréttatilkynning um rannsóknarefni hennar er hér og Quanta tímaritið er með góða umfjöllun um hana hér.

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The Fields Medal was awarded on August 13th (http://www.mathunion.org/general/prizes/2014) and, for the first time, there was a woman among the awardees. Her name is Maryam Mirzakhani and she is from Iran. Press release about her research can be found here and Quanta magazine has a nice article about her here.

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