Maryam Mirzakhani: Iranian newspapers break hijab taboo in tributes

first woman to win the coveted Fields Medal

"It is fun -– it's like solving a puzzle or connecting the dots in a detective case," she said when she won the Fields Medal.

Did she know that she had Moon in Scorpio when using "detective case".

Muere (cáncer) Maryam Mirzakhani , la primera mujer en recibir el equivalente al Nobel de las Matemáticas.

Mirzakhani's friend Firouz Naderi, a former director of Solar Systems Exploration at NASA, announced her death on Instagram.

"A light was turned off today. It breaks my heart ..... gone far too soon," he wrote, later adding: "A genius? Yes. But also a daughter, a mother and a wife."

Mirzakhani, a professor at Stanford University in California, died after the cancer she had been battling for four years spread to her bone marrow, Iranian media said.

twitter: "Da gewinnst du als einzige Frau/Perserin die Fields Medaille u stirbst mit 40 an Krebs. Life is a bitch" #Mirzakhani http://m.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/maryam-mirzakhani-mathematikerin-und-fields-medaillen-gewinnerin-ist-tot-a-1157962.html …

Posted by Impulsv
She died of cancer at40

So sad

agree