Thank you Dr. Lala for initiating the discussion. I agree with your opinion that this news will encourage world women mathematicians. I feel very proud as  she was graduated from the same university I got my B.Eng from.

I feel proud to hear the news that Dr.Mirzakhani is the first woman to win a Fields Medal (some call it Noble prize of Maths).My congratulations to her on receiving the most prestigeous award.This news will encourage world women mathemaician.

Thank you Dr. Lala for initiating the discussion. I agree with your opinion that this news will encourage world women mathematicians. I feel very proud as  she was graduated from the same university I got my B.Eng from.

Congratulations!

Period!

Many congratulations to Dr.Mirzakhani. It would certainly encourage other women of the world and specifically Iranian women to do their best in the knowledge economy era.

Dear Behrouz

Hearty congratulations to Dr. Mirzakhani. It is great to be first woman with such a prestigious award. It should encourage other women of the world and specifically Iranian women to not worry about mathematics and try their best to excel as it is the basis for most of the technologies that we live in today and in future.

Congratulations to Mirzakhani

Research work of Mirzakhani

• Discovered a formula expressing the volume of a moduli space with a given genus as a polynomial in the number of boundary components.
•  Her thesis showed how to compute the Weil-Petersson volumes of moduli spaces of bordered Riemann surfaces.
•  Her research interests include Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/aug/13/interview-maryam-mirzakhani-fields-medal-winner-mathematician

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani

Dears Tobias, Asmat ,Nageswara, and Golam, thank you for joining discussion and sharing your opinions.

It is amazing that she was not interested in Mathematics at early childhood. Here is part of the interview (video can be seen in the link)

As a child growing up in Tehran, Mirzakhani had no intention of becoming a mathematician. Her chief goal was simply to read every book she could find. She also watched television biographies of famous women such as Marie Curie and Helen Keller, and later read “Lust for Life,” a novel about Vincent van Gogh. These stories instilled in her an undefined ambition to do something great with her life ..

http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-a-tenacious-explorer-of-abstract-surfaces/

Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani, by becoming the first woman Fields medalist, has given another evidence that the woman is as good as the man in sciences and she can compete & win. Our university has co-education system since it started. Since ~ the year 2000, the top grades in many B.Sc. programs were mostly attained by girls. Some attributed this to girls' abilities to avoid distractions & their insistence upon facing the challenges by serious dedicated hard work. Most of the guys (but not all) in our university have the wrong order of priorities ; they may easily forget about one or two lecture(s)  for a relaxed gathering in the cafetria! Some of them abide by the law(!), which dismisses the student from a course if the absence exceeds 6 lectures, so he feels that it is his right to miss 6 lectures!

I have appreciated the impressive progress of research in Iran in my specific field. At the moment I am performing an interesting and productive collaboration with an Iranian collegue. So, the news is not surprising for me. And the gender of this great scientist is a further sign of progress. This event is similar to what happened to Marie Curie or Rita Levi Montalcini. The positive feed-back of those aspects must not be misunderstood. 

Dear Nizar, I agree with you that women are as good as the men in sciences and they can compete & win.

Dear Ierardi , I agree with you that the gender of this great scientist is a further sign of progress.

Thank you Fatemeh, Surprisingly, you are the first female scientist who contributed to this question.

Dear Behrouz,

I agree with each of the points in your post.   Perhaps now the award of the Fields medal will also recognize many other outstanding mathematicians who are women.   Are there female mathematicians that you would nominate for the Fields medal?

Dear James,

I do not have any particular name in my mind. I leave it to fine mathematicians to nominate the candidates. The nomination guideline is given by International Mathematical Union (IMU).

I assume that most candidate  have already won national or other prestigious awards before nomination as it is the case for Dr. Mirzakhani.

Here is what she said after being awarded:

“This is a great honor. I will be happy if it encourages young female scientists and mathematicians,” Dr. Mirzakhani was quoted as saying in a Stanford news release on Tuesday. “I am sure there will be many more women winning this kind of award in coming years.”

http://www.mathunion.org/general/prizes/nomination-guidelines/

Dear @Behrouz, it is very good news! Thanks for sharing! You do remember that I had a thread about the role of women! My warm congratulations to Dr. Mirzakhani! She is the first one, let us hope that she is not going to be the last one!

I am very glad that she is the first woman Fields medalist for drawing deep connections between topology, geometry and dynamical systems.

Here is fine paper based on Mirzakhani doctorate!

I wonder why she is not the member of Research Gate community!? 

Article A simpler proof of Mirzakhani's simple curve asymptotics

Thank you dear Ljubomir for the article.

You are right. She is not a RGer!, but she has a page at google scholar .

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FZBjJ4cAAAAJ&hl=en

Thank you Behrouz, the greatest congratulations to Maryam. Reviving back great Muslim scholars like Abu Sina and many more. I am personally grateful. In these era, the best Mathematicians that I know are Chinese all over the world, maybe because they practice Maths since young age - maybe, I'm not sure. Its really wonderful to know Maryam won such precious award. 

Muslim (men and women) Nobel laureates

As of 2012, ten Nobel Prize winners have been Muslims. Half of the ten Muslim Nobel laureates were awarded the prize in the 21st century. Six of the ten winners have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.  Muslims make up over 23% of the worlds population and have earned 1% of nobel prizes. Seven Muslim countries shared 10 nobel prizes as follows: Bangladesh (1), Egypt (4), Iran (1), Palestine (1), Pakistan (1), Turkey (1), Yemen (1). Out of 10 nobel prize winners, 2 were women

Peace

1978: Anwar al-Sadat,   Egyptianpolicymaker (Egypt)

1994: Yasser Arafat Palestinianpolitician (Palestine)

*2003: Shirin Ebadi, IranianHuman Rights Activist (Iran) WOMEN

2005: Mohamed El Baradei, Egyptianpolicymaker (Egypt)

2006: Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshieconomist and founder of Grameen Bank (Bangladesh)

*2011: Tawakel Karman, Human rights activist based in Yemen. A prominent leader in the Arab Spring (Yemen) WOMEN

 Literature

1988: Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptianauthor, noted for his contribution to modern Arabic  (Egypt)

2006: Orhan Pamuk,   Turkishauthor famous for his novels My Name Is Red and Snow(Turkey)

 Science’s

1979: Abdus Salam, (Physics)   Pakistaniphysicist (Pakistan)

1999: Ahmed Zewail, (Chemistry) Egyptian-Americanscientist (Egypt)

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Muslim_Nobel_laureates

My congratulations to Dr.Mirzakhani on receiving the most prestigious award  and  I wish her the next successes.

My best congratulations for the phantastic award. I admire her power, knowledge and genius.

Wow! I personally feel honored if a person, and that too a woman from a neighboring country and the Asian region attains such a feet. I salute her for her performance,  honor and hard work. Kudos!. It is still more important for me because I consider women issues very dear to me in my course on diversity management.

It is an honor for Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani and we all salute her for her achievements. She is the best.

Its a great achievement for Iran, the Iranian people and women mathematicians worldwide. I salute her for this great achievement.

Whereas mathematics has not been a subject of choice for women, contribution of Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani to this field is admirable. It is indeed a matter of great pride for the entire research and educational world. When the world’s present socio-political condition is worrying the humanity, Dr. Mirzakhani has given reasons to smile by becoming the first woman Fields medallist that once again affirmed the fact that woman can touch every height in every field. I congratulate and salute Dr. Mirzakhani and her pioneering accomplishment.

t is an honor for Dr. Mirzakhani and i am proud as an iranian and as a woman too but also it is an alarm for me to work harder than now and have specific aims to reach although she is very genius

It is a good encouragement to women's world-over and particularly for Iranian women.

For a researcher like me who first specialized in mathematics and then switched to economics, Maryam Mirzakhani is really good and hopeful news for mathematics and economics.

There are now just 900 Nobel laureates as of 2015. Among them there are in total　49　female laureates. Women count 5.4％ in average. If we count laureates in each category, we have 16 in Peace, 14 in Literature, 12 in Physiology or Medicine, 4 in Chemistry, 2 women in Physics and 1 in Economics.

Sweden Bank sponsored Economics prize started in 1969 and has history less than half of Physics and other prizes. This fact taken in account, we may say that physics and economics have only a small number of women laureates. We may add mathematics in the fields that women's success is not conspicuous.

This state must reflect that there are some cultural barriers that keep away women from these three sciences. It is not neutral to sciences. If we have more women economists, theorists in particular, economics science may become more human than it is now. If mathematics has Maryam Mirzakhani, economics may has its Maryam Mirzakhani. In this sense the news of Mirzakhani's prize gives me new hope for economics.

Congratulations. Extra ordinary achievement. 

I am sorry for great loss! 

Maryam Mirzakhani, Stanford mathematician and Fields Medal winner, dies!

Stanford mathematics Professor Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and to-date only female winner of the Fields Medal since its inception in 1936, died Friday, July 14. She had been battling breast cancer since 2013; the disease spread to her liver and bones in 2016. Mirzakhani was 40 years old. She died at Stanford Hospital...

http://news.stanford.edu/2017/07/15/maryam-mirzakhani-stanford-mathematician-and-fields-medal-winner-dies/

Maryam Mirzakhani (RIP).

Well done. My gratulation to a genderless award.

A great achievement and award tor the right person. Good example for all humanity!

She died on July 14, 2017. Only 40 years old, after battling with breast cancer since 2013...

Yes, she is gone. I have contributed about it at previous page... :(

waw amazing

Greetings and admiration for every diligent researcher in his work

Dear Dr Emad Kamil Hossein

I appreciate you, deeply. I am so grateful of you for your attention to the prize of the late prof. Maryam Mirzakhani.

She was a genius woman with so bright wonderful mind. She rewarded two gold medals in mathematics world olympiads and other great prizes. Unfortunately, her classmates died in a driving accident, while she alived twenty years ago. As well, Her tallents Flourished in U.S. . In my country women and their talents don't considered, seriously by the govs, unfortunately. I hope I can see the dates that everyone allover the word can grow and succeed only based on his/her abilities and talents, no by sex, religion, colore of skin etc.

Kind regards.