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Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017)


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1 Department of Mathematics and Sciences, College of Arts and Applied Sciences, Dhofar University, Salalah, Oman
 

Stanford mathematics Professor Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and to-date only woman mathematician to win the Fields Medal since its inception in 1936, died in USA on Friday, 14 July 2017, at the age of 40, after a four-year battle with metastatic breast cancer. Prominent mathematicians world-wide reacted to her deathas follows: Peter Clive Sarnak, a mathematician at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study said ‘her death is a big loss and shock to the mathematical community worldwide.She was in the midst of doing fantastic work.
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  • Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017)

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Sameen Ahmed Khan
Department of Mathematics and Sciences, College of Arts and Applied Sciences, Dhofar University, Salalah, Oman

Abstract


Stanford mathematics Professor Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and to-date only woman mathematician to win the Fields Medal since its inception in 1936, died in USA on Friday, 14 July 2017, at the age of 40, after a four-year battle with metastatic breast cancer. Prominent mathematicians world-wide reacted to her deathas follows: Peter Clive Sarnak, a mathematician at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study said ‘her death is a big loss and shock to the mathematical community worldwide.She was in the midst of doing fantastic work.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv113%2Fi05%2F982-983