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The two women’s skills took vastly different forms: Devi was known for her blazingly fast mental arithmetic, while Mirzakhani made strides in the mathematics of surfaces, becoming the first woman to win one of the highest honors bestowed on mathematicians, the Fields Medal.The contrast between the two women is echoed in the divergent styles of the two films:
One is a Bollywood biopic heavy on emotional drama, and the other is a documentary replete with mathematical lingo.
Source: Science News