New York, Shawwal 17, 1435, Aug 13, 2014, SPA -- Iranian-born Maryam Mirzakhani, a professor at Stanford University, received the Fields Medal on Wednesday, becoming the first woman ever to win the top prize in mathematics, dpa reported. Mirzakhani received the Fields Medal, known as the Nobel Prize of mathematics, at the International Congress of Mathematics in Seoul, South Korea, along with three other mathematicians honoured with the prize this year. The other recipients were Artur Avila of the National Centre for Scientific Research in France and the National Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics in Brazil, Manjul Bhargava of Princeton University in the United States, and Martin Hairer of the University of Warwick in Britain. -- SPA 00:13 LOCAL TIME 21:13 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w