" Maryam Mirzakhani, a professor at Stanford University, is a recipient of the 2014 Fields Medal, the top honor in mathematics. She is the first woman in the prize's 80-year history to earn the distinction"
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Maryam Mirzakhani graduated from Tehran's Sharif University: the top engineering/maths university in Iran, and arguably, the world. In the documentary "Mirase Alberta", a Standford professor stresses that Sharif University is unarguably the best engineering universtiy in the world.
The Iranian school curriculum is extremely tough from a young age. I remember seeing my 9 year old cousin doing algebra that I had learnt when I was 15 in high school. Getting into public universities is also tough as yearly there is a national exam students take and are ranked from 1 to the couple million students who take the exam. The top couple thousand students are offered free entry into some of Iran's top universities like University of Tehran, Sharif University, and Shahid Beheshti University to name a few.
But unfortunately, most of the top students leave the country and go study in North America or the UK. This, however, is understandable. Many worry about their job prospects when they graduate and their future in Iran and its unstable economy. Nevertheless, it is unfortunate that the geniuses of the country leave and frequently never return; investing their knowledge in a foreign country.
Watch the documentary below which explores this situation in Iran.
Mirase Alberta
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