When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new prize was just founded to honor the late Maryam Mirzakhani, a brilliant Iranian ...

Maryam Mirzakhani, a Stanford University professor who became the only woman to receive the highest honor in mathematics, died Saturday after a long battle with cancer, the school said. Maryam ...

Filmed in Canada, Iran, and the United States, Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani examines the life and mathematical work of Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian immigrant ...

The first woman to win what's considered the Nobel Prize of mathematics, the Fields Medal, died Saturday after battling breast cancer. She was only 40 years old. NPR's Hansi Lo Wang has this ...

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation today announced the creation of the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize, to be awarded to outstanding women in the field of mathematics. Each year, the $50,000 ...

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 ...

The front pages of Iranian newspapers bearing portraits of Maryam Mirzakhani, the day after she passed away ( ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images) Today Breakthrough Prize Foundation Announces Maryam ...

There’s no one way to be a mathematical genius. Shakuntala Devi had little formal education. Maryam Mirzakhani attended graduate school at Harvard University. Two films chronicle how each woman became ...

GREENWICH — Greenwich Academy sophomore Natalie Shell is one of 149 female students to win an inaugural award in a national math competition. The Mathematical Association of America American ...

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