"Bill",via Brent Meeker>Like many, I was very pleased that for the first time, a Fields Medal was awarded to a woman, an Iranian mathematician who teaches at Stanford University. See what an Iranian newspaper did to her portrait here <http://www.juancole.com/2014/08/iranian-genius-officials.html>. ...and she's not the only one. Pretty dumb, huh? < But at least those debauched Shiites let her study advanced math (and lecture with some of her hair showing) in Tehran. Compare Pakistan, where they shoot little schoolgirls in the head, or blind them with acid. The only reason Pakistan has nukes is the apostate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdus_Salam, whose reward was to be driven from his homeland for being the wrong kind of Muslim. I'm no fan of feminism, but that may be the Achilles heel that brings down radical Islam before its Final Confrontation with the rest of the world. --rwg Another outstanding Iranian woman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Tour_Chayes (born here to Iranian immigrants)