In 2014, Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to win an award which has been described as the Mathematics equivalent of an award that the physicist Marie Curie was the first woman to win. What two awards are we talking of?
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The Fields Medal (given to outstanding mathematicians under the age of 40), which is often spoken of as the 'Mathematics Nobel'. More here on
the Fields medalists for 2014.
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