First Field Medal winner woman

Stanford's Maryam Mirzakhani wins Fields Medal. Bigger than nobel (four years).

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/august/fields-medal-mirzakhani-081214.html



I vainly tried to understand her work for two reasons – how the universe came to be, and top flight prime numbers and cryptography. I gave up – it makes some sense why string theory on 26 dimensions makes sense and all why zeta(1) = lim(natural n) Sum(n) = -1/12 as per rieman and ramanujan and even why this sounding absurdity is basis of 26 dimensions in quantum field theory!