Fields Medal

Indian-Australian Akshay Venkatesh wins Fields medal, the 'Nobel prize' for maths

The Fields medals are awarded every four years to the most promising mathematicians under 40.

Iran's Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman mathematician to win coveted Fields Medal, dies at 40 of cancer

In 2014, Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal, the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for mathematics, which is awarded by the International Congress of Mathematicians.

Iran media mourns death of mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, run front page pictures without hijab

In some cases newspapers even broke with tradition and portrayed Mirzakhani without her hair covered by a hijab.

Two Indian-origin mathematicians win global Maths awards

Two Indian-origin academicians have won prestigious global prizes in the field with one of them being awarded the Fields Medal -- known as the "Nobel Prize of mathematics".