Chen said her mother had insisted on a groom at first but later jumped aboard the solo marriage plan.

Chen I-wan Note: Henryk Iwaniec of Rutgers University received the 2002 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory presented every three years by the American Mathematical Society.

She has posed for a set of photos in a flowing white dress, enlisted a wedding planner and rented a banquet hall for a marriage celebration with 30 friends.