This handout photo taken and released on August 13, 2014 by the Seoul ICM 2014 shows South Korean President Park Geun-Hye (left) giving the prize to Maryam Mirzakhani (right), a Harvard educated mathematician and professor at Stanford University in California, at the awards ceremony for the Fields Medals during the International Congress of Mathematicians 2014 in Seoul. -AFP / The Seoul ICM 2014
SEOUL: An Iranian-born mathematician has become the first woman to win a prestigious Fields Medal, widely viewed as the Nobel Prize of mathematics.
Maryam Mirzakhani, a Harvard-educated mathematician and professor at Stanford University in California, was one of four winners announced by the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) at its conference in Seoul on Wednesday.
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