RIP Maryam Mirzakhani

[rv_bass]

http://news.stanford.edu/2017/07/15/maryam-mirzakhani-stanford-mathematician-and-fields-medal-winner-dies/

[David Houck]

Wonderful article; thank you for sharing here with us.

[peoplechipper]

thanks for sharing that; too bad we'll never find out what other amazing stuff she may have figured out...

[pauldo]

What I enjoyed about that article is not only does it shed further acknowledgement that gender/ cultural background has nothing to do with brilliance - it also (to me) describes a person who had a true, deep passion for what she did - and that is a a wonderful thing.

I smiled where "Her young daughter described her mother at work as “painting.”" Because her "...method of working on a problem was to doodle on large sheets of white paper, scribbling formulas on the periphery of her drawings."