International Women in Mathematics Day in Gurugram
Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman mathematician to win the Fields Medal, was born on 12th May 1977. She was an Iranian mathematician and a Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University. She received the Fields Medal in 2014 for her outstanding contribution to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces. She was one of the world’s leading experts in the field of geometry and dynamical systems. The whole world, particularly the world of Mathematics, was mourned on her sudden demise in 2017, only at the age of 40.