On 16 June 2014, I received an email from the President of the International Mathematical Union. The subject of the email was a question "Will you be at ICM?" and the body of the email consisted of ...

** Originally published on September 23, 2019. Maryam Mirzakhani was a woman of many firsts. She was the first woman to compete on the Iranian math Olympiad team and the first to achieve a perfect ...

Examine the life of the first woman and the first Iranian to receive the Fields Medal. Examine the life and mathematical work of Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian immigrant to the United States who became ...

Nearly three years after she became the first woman to win math’s equivalent of a Nobel Prize, Maryam Mirzakhani has died of breast cancer at age 40. Her death was confirmed Saturday by Stanford ...

As an 8-year-old, Maryam Mirzakhani used to tell herself stories about the exploits of a remarkable girl. Every night at bedtime, her heroine would become mayor, travel the world or fulfill some other ...

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At the 2018 World Meeting for Mathematics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Iranian Mathematical Society proposed designating Maryam Mirzakhani’s birthday (May 12) as a day for celebrating women in ...

Maryam Mirzakhani was the first woman to win the prestigious Fields Medal. She worked at Stanford University, which confirmed her death Saturday. Nearly three years after she became the first woman to ...