The Fields Medal is the highest honor a mathematician can achieve. The esteemed award has been compared to the Nobel Prize for the field of math – and there’s only one requirement to win.

Kurdish mathematician Cauchar Birkar, right, 40, receives the Fields Medal award, math's most prestigious prize, during the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on ...

Last week Maryam Mirzakhani, a 37-year-old Iranian-born mathematician who works at Stanford University became the first woman to win the Fields Medal. This is the highest honor in math and it's ...

It’s been well documented that math-based fields in higher education and at the professional level are male-dominated. Perez-Felkner and doctoral students Samantha Nix and Kirby Thomas set out ...

Exposure to math and science has a bigger impact on students’ intent to major in a science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) field than does math achievement, according to a study ...

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CAMP ZAMA, Japan (April 22, 2016) - Zama American High School hosted the annual Kanto Plain Math Field Day April 20 at Camp Zama's Community Club. Approximately 335 students from ZAHS and 11 other ...

The Fields Medal, whose origins date back to the 1930s, will be issued again this year in August to up to four of the world's most accomplished mathematicians under the age of 40. In a commentary ...