Maryam Mirzakhani, a Stanford University professor who was the first and only woman to win the prestigious Fields Medal in mathematics, has died. She was 40. Mirzakhani, who battled breast cancer, ...

(Reuters) - Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and only woman to receive the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for mathematics, died on Saturday at age 40 after a battle with cancer, said officials at Stanford ...

Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and only woman, Muslim and Iranian to win the Fields Medal (the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in mathematics) died on July 14th, after a four-year battle against breast ...

Iranian media have hailed trailblazing Iran-born mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani following her death from cancer, with her image blazoned across newspaper front pages on Sunday. In some cases ...