Meet Maryam Mirzakhani, the first female recipient of the most prestigious mathematics award ?????? ?????????? was an Iranian mathematician and a professor at Stanford University. She was born on May 3, 1977, in Tehran, Iran, and died on July 14, 2017, at the age of 40. She was one of the greatest mathematicians of her generation. She was also a mother. In 2014, Mirzakhani became the first and only woman to date to win the prestigious Fields Medal, for her understanding of the symmetry of curved surfaces, often described as Math's...