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Audio Article #22: Maryam Mirzakhani - Remembering the Field Medal Winner and Female Pioneer in Mathematics

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Mathematics was Maryam Mirzakhani’s passion. In 2014, she became the first and only winner of the prestigious Fields Medal, the ‘Nobel Prize’ of mathematics. Her genius inspired other women to excel in male dominated areas and was instrumental in achieving more rights for Iranian women. On 14 July 2017 Mirzakhani succumbed to breast cancer at the young age of 40.

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