On 13 August 2014, Mirzakhani was honored with the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics, becoming the first woman to win the prize, as well as the first Iranian. The award committee cited her work in "the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces".
In 2014, on August 13th, Maryam Mirzakhani received the Fields Medal, mathematics' highest honor. She was the first woman to win this prestigious award and the first Iranian to do so. The committee praised her work in "the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces."