Iranian math genius dies at age 40
Iranian math genius, Maryam Mirzakhani United States, July 16, 2017 - Maryam Mirzakhani, a genius in mathematics and the first woman to win the Fields Medal in math, died on Saturday, July 15, 2017, in a hospital in the United States. She had been battling with cancer for four years, the news of which spread only three days ago. The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran extends its condolences on the tragic demise of this great woman and genius mathematician to her family, to the women and people of Iran, the scientific community and the women of the world. Maryam Mirzakhani was born in 1977 in Tehran, Iran. She went to Farzanegan (Exceptional Talents) high school in Tehran. In 1994, she won a gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad, the first female Iranian student to do so. In the 1995 International Mathematical Olympiad, she became the first Iranian student to achieve a perfect score and to win two gold medals. She obtained ...