This year's winner of the Abel Prize, math's equivalent of the Nobel, is Karen Uhlenbeck. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/science/karen-uhlenbeck-abel-prize.html …
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…and now that she has received what is arguably the highest honor in the field, we're not supposed to note that she is indeed the first woman to be so honored?
Guess what the title of the news release from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters was: KAREN UHLENBECK FIRST WOMAN TO WIN THE ABEL PRIZE
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I see your point, but her accomplishment was that she was absolutely brilliant and is one of the brightest minds in mathematics in the world in the last hundred years. Her gender is as relevant as her nationality. I actually am far more impressed...
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that she managed to get this award without being a fellow at Chambridge. She doesn’t appear as unique as Ramanujan, but her methods and work especially in series is worthy of comparison to Euler or Ramanujan. And most importantly, its association...
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Oh... and the Abel prize is quite new 2003. Being the first of anything in that case is not statistically interesting. Alternatively, the Fields Medal which is basically the accepted math equivalent of the Nobel was won by Maryam Mirzahani in 2014 at age 36. She died in 2017.
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I can’t even pronounce the type of math she won the award for :)
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