Maryam Mirzakhanov award for outstanding contribution to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their spatial modules.
She was born in Tehran in 1977 and in 2004 received the degree of Doctor of Mathematical Sciences at Harvard University, from 2008 professor of mathematics teaching at Stanford University in the United States, where she lives with her family: her husband and daughter .
In addition to Mary, awards were presented to three other scientists: French mathematician of Brazilian origin, Artur Avila, Manjula Bhargava, representing Princeton University (USA), and Martin Hairer of British Warwick University.
Fields Medal (Fields Medal) is awarded once every four years at each International Congress of Mathematicians to two, three or four young mathematicians not over 40 years old (or under the age of 40 in the year of the award).
Prize and Medal named in honor of Canadian mathematician John Fields, who, as president of the VII International Congress of Mathematicians held in 1924 in Toronto, offered at each subsequent Congress to award two mathematicians gold medal in recognition of their outstanding performance.
The obverse medals, which is made of 14-tikaratnogo gold (583 samples), written in Latin: «Transire suum pectus mundoque potiri» («transcend their human limitations and conquer the universe”) and depicts Archimedes and the reverse – «Congregati ex toto orbe mathematici ob scripta insignia tribuere »(« Mathematics, gathered from around the world, handed [the award] for outstanding works “). Along with the medal is awarded a cash prize of 15,000 Canadian dollars.
Among the winners of the Fields Medal is the Soviet and Russian mathematicians: Sergei Novikov (1970), Grigory Margulis (1978), Vladimir Drinfeld (1990), Yefim Zel’manov (1994), Maxim Kontsevich (1998), Vladimir Provincial (2002), Perelman (2006, refused a medal), Andrei Okounkov (2006) and Stanislav Smirnov (2010).
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