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, 13 Aug 2014, Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal for her work on complex geometry. She was the first woman to win it since it began in 1936.

She died in 2017, aged just 40. Multiple awards and initiatives are named after her.

photo of Maryam Mirzakhani. She is an Iranian woman with short dark hair.
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@CarveHerName Here’s some background on the , named after mathematics professor John Charles Fields who is buried on the campus of in Hamilton, . http://www.sitnews.us/MacDougall/082806_macdougall.html

Was there a particular woman in who spurred the animosity between chemist Alfred and Fields’ Swedish friend and fellow mathematics professor Gösta Mittag-Leffler that indirectly led to the Fields Medal itself? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gösta_Mittag-Leffler

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