photo of Maryam Mirzakhani. She is an Iranian woman with short dark hair.
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#OnThisDay, 13 Aug 2014, Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal for her work on complex geometry. She was the first woman to win it since it began in 1936.
She died in 2017, aged just 40. Multiple awards and initiatives are named after her.
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