July 2017

UNESCO pays tribute to mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani

UNESCO joins with the rest of the world’s scientific community to pay tribute to the Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, who died on Saturday at the age of 40.  Mirzakhani was the first woman to have received the prestigious Fields Medal in mathematics. She was awarded the medal in 2014, an honor that is widely acknowledged as the Noble Prize of mathematics.