Jul 17, 2017
We were gutted to learn about the death of mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani over the weekend. Prof. Mirzakhani is the only woman (and only Iranian person) to have been awarded a Fields Medal, often called the Nobel Prize of mathematics, but only awarded every four years and to mathematicians under 40 years old. Prof. Mirzakhani received the Fields Medal in 2014, and just turned 40 this past May.
The world has lost a ground-breaking and glass-ceiling-shattering mathematician far, far, too soon.
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- Emily