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.
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.
