FM offers condolences on death of Iranian scientist

EghtesadOnline: Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif on Saturday expressed condolences on death of the Iranian winner of Fields Medal Maryam Mirzakhani.

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16 July 2017

Zarif made the remarks in a message released in his Instagram account, according to IRNA.

“Demise of late Iranian math genius saddened me and all the Iranians that are honored of their scientific figures,” the foreign minister noted.

He condoled with the bereaved family of Mirzakhani and the community of Iranian scientists, Zarif noted.

Late Mirzakhani was definitely one of the most paramount scientists in the past 100 years in the world.

The Iranian winner of Fields Medal, also known as the Nobel Prize of mathematics, and Stanford University professor, Maryam Mirzakhani, passed away at 40 in a hospital in the US on Saturday.

In 1994, Mirzakhani won a gold medal in the Hong Kong International Mathematical Olympiad, to be the first female Iranian student to have received a gold medal. In the 1995 Toronto International Mathematical Olympiad, she became the first Iranian student to receive a perfect score and to win two gold medals.

She obtained her BSc in mathematics (1999) from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran. She went to the US and got a PhD from Harvard University in 2004.

Mirzakhani (b. May 3, 1977) was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013, a year before she set the record of the first ever woman to win the prestigious Fields Medal in mathematics.