Nearly three years after she became the first woman to win math's equivalent of a Nobel Prize, Maryam Mirzakhani has died of breast cancer at age 40. Her death was confirmed Saturday by Stanford ...

Abstract mathematics sometimes has surprisingly practical applications, to not only physics but other arenas as well. Take, for example, the work of extraordinarily innovative mathematician Maryam ...

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

STANFORD, Calif. -- Maryam Mirzakhani, a professor at Stanford University who was the first and only woman to win the prestigious Fields Medal in mathematics, has died. She was 40. Mirzakhani, who ...

Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, Ph.D., passed away Friday four years after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Mirzakhani, who was 40, remains the only woman and the only Iranian to ever ...

Chalk up another victory for doodling, and, by extension, the arts. Maryam Mirzakhani, the 37-year-old Stanford University mathematics professor who this year became the first woman to win the Fields ...

This week Maryam Mirzakhani was named a winner of the Fields Medal, considered the equivalent to a Nobel Prize mathematics. One of four Fields Medal winners in 2014, she is the first woman to receive ...

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 ...