Maryam Mirzakhani, 1st woman to win 'Nobel Prize of mathematics,' dead at 40

Sunday, July 16, 2017 - 18:52 in Mathematics & Economics

Maryam Mirzakhani, a Stanford University professor who was the first and only woman to win the prestigious Fields Medal in mathematics, has died. She was 40.

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