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  1. In 2016, the cancer spread to her bones and liver, [22] [45] and she died on 14 July 2017 at the age of 40 at Stanford Hospital in Stanford, California. [22] [46] Iranian president Hassan Rouhani and other officials offered their condolences and praised Mirzakhani's scientific achievements.

  2. Jul 16, 2017 · Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian mathematician who was the only woman ever to win a Fields Medal, the most prestigious honor in mathematics, died on Friday. She was 40.

  3. Jul 15, 2017 · Stanford mathematics Professor Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and to-date only female winner of the Fields Medal since its inception in 1936, died Friday, July 14. She had been battling breast cancer since 2013; the disease spread to her liver and bones in 2016. Mirzakhani was 40 years old. She died at Stanford Hospital.

  4. Jul 10, 2015 · Maryam Mirzakhani (born May 3, 1977, Tehrān, Iran—died July 14, 2017, Palo Alto, California, U.S.) was an Iranian mathematician who became (2014) the first woman and the first Iranian to be awarded a Fields Medal.

  5. Jul 15, 2017 · Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to receive the prestigious Fields Medal for mathematics, has died in the US. The 40-year-old Iranian, a professor at Stanford University, had breast cancer...

  6. Jul 17, 2017 · Last Friday, Stanford University mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and only woman to receive the Fields Medal, died at the age of 40, reports Kenneth Chang at The New York Times.

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  8. Maryam Mirzakhani from Stanford, the first and to-date only female winner of the Fields Medal died on July 14 after a long battle with cancer. Maryam Mirzakhani, who wrote her PhD dissertation at the Harvard mathematics department in 2004 under the guidance of Curtis McMullen.