[math-fun] Maryam Mirzakhani first female Fields Medal winner (Tehran-Iran born prof. at Stanford)

and what did she actually do? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani says some stuff, but basically I did not understand a word of this. http://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/IMU/Prizes/2014/news_release_mirzakhani.p... contains a few actually comprehensible claims. Despite Iran culture and education system allegedly being anti-female, unlike the enlightened West, you'll notice the first female Fields medalist came from Iran.