Unbelievable and heartbreaking! Our role model since elementary school dies at 40! I still remember the days I was struggling to learn her book written for young math lovers to prepare for math Olympiad. She was ahead of us as a senior but she passed all the elevation steps very fast, and soon she became Stanford professor while she had a little girl.
Her milestone completed when she won Fields Medal in Math (the most prestigious award equivalent to Nobel prize). As a woman, her accomplishment is not only inspiring for all Iranians but also specially for all women in fundamental sciences. Definitely her work helps the other mathematicians in the field, but her humble character wasn’t self-explanatory.
Unfortunately her life was short but fruitful for all of us not only from scientific aspects but also other societal aspects as a public figure like Galois, Ramanujan, and Riemann. May she rest in peace.
Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani died on Friday the 14 July 2017 (19 Shawwal 1438).
It is a big loss to the Scientific Community!
Sameen Ahmed Khan,
First Muslim to be Awarded a Fields Medal,
Radiance Viewsweekly, Volume LII, No. 26, pp 28-29 (28 September 2014 – 04 October 2014).
Sameen
Sameen Ahmed KHAN
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Sciences
College of Arts and Applied Sciences (CAAS)
Dhofar University
Post Box No. 2509
Postal Code: 211
Salalah
Sultanate of OMAN