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diego First Female Fields Medalist
History made, history made, First woman's Fields Medal displayed!
diego Bounce the ball off complex boundaries to discover how geometry predicts every rebound.
Doodling to discover: Maryam Mirzakhani sketched giant shapes and equations on huge sheets of paper on her living room floor to visualize her math.
diego In 1990, physicist Edward Witten became the only non-mathematician to win the Fields Medal.
A person who is honored with an award for outstanding creative or intellectual achievement. In 2014, Maryam Mirzakhani became the first female laureate of the prestigious Fields Medal.
What subject did physicist Edward Witten use to revolutionize geometry and win the medal?
What is the name of the prestigious Brazilian research institute where Artur Avila did his early work?
Which physicist won the Fields Medal in 1990, becoming the only non-mathematician to do so?
Artur Avila, who won the Fields Medal in 2014, was the first laureate from which region?