The ranking list was developed at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and mainly evaluates publications in important scientific journals such as 'Nature' and 'Science', the citation rates of academics and people who have been awarded the Nobel Prize or the
Fields Medal.
The Iranian winner of
Fields Medal, also known as the Nobel Prize of mathematics, and Stanford University professor, Mirzakhani, passed away at 40 in a hospital in the US on July 14, 2017.
"And in the end, it is that bit of time that he saved, that he used to pore over this prize and this intellectual glory now belongs to him." "Thx," said Ahmed Jawad, when presented with his
fields medal.
Birkar is the second Iranian-born winner of the
Fields Medal. Four years ago, the medal, which is only awarded every four years, went to Maryam Mirzakhani, who became the award's first and so far only female winner.
IANS New York Indian-origin academic Akshay Venkatesh has been awarded the
Fields Medal, which is often called the Nobel Prize of mathematics.
Since 1978, Math Olympiad gold medallists have comprised more than a third of the winners of the
Fields Medal, the Nobel Prize equivalent for Mathematics.
One of the winners of the
Fields Medal 2018, often called the "Nobel Prize of mathematics," had his gold medal worth around $4,000 stolen minutes after receiving it during a ceremony in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday.
ISLAMABAD -- Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian-born mathematician who in 2014 became the first woman awarded the
Fields Medal, often called the most prestigious prize in mathematics, died on Saturday, reported NDTV.
In 2014, the Iran native and a Stanford University professor became the first woman to receive the highest honor
Fields Medal, in mathematics and equal in reputation to a Nobel Prize.
Her career's greatest achievement came when she became the first woman to win the renowned
Fields Medal for mathematics in 2014, which is the equivalent to the "Nobel Prize for mathematics".
Jean-Pierre Serre's mathematical contributions, leading to a
Fields Medal in 1954, were largely in the field of algebraic topology, but his later work ranged widely--within algebraic geometry, group theory, and especially number theory.