Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani wins the Fields Medal, considered the Nobel of math, and breaks into a male-dominated academic elite. All 52 previous winners of the award were men.
Time: Top mathematics prize awarded to a woman for first time
Maryam Mirzakhani, 37, will be awarded the Fields Medal - widely considered math's Nobel Prize, since there is no Nobel for mathematics - at a ceremony in Seoul on Aug. 13 morning.
