The Fields Prize has been awarded to a woman for the first time.
"Iranian-born mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani on Wednesday became the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal, mathematics' equivalent to the Nobel Prize." Please read more in the CBC online here.
You can also read more in The Guardian - a nice interview piece and The Stanford University press release, where Maryam Mirzakhani is a Professor of Mathematics.
Thanks to Ajarn Lana for sharing this with the Mathematics department.
We are all working with Stanford University this year to develop our Mathematics and a growth mindset and you can puzzle over the famous puzzle that ignited her mathematical curiosity.
Add all of the numbers from 1 to 100 with a system that isn't 1+2+3+4 <-- there is a shortcut (:
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