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Iranian Math Genius Maryam Mirzakhani Dies of Cancer

AFTAB | Maryam Mirzakhani, the internationally-renowned Iranian mathematician and the first female winner of Fields Medal, has died of cancer according to one of her relatives.

Mirzakhani had been hospitalized in the US for deteriorating health conditions caused by cancer recurrence, but she succumbed to the disease on Saturday, one of her relatives told the Mehr News Agency.

Her medical tests showed that cancer had spread to her bone marrow a few weeks ago.

Maryam’s parents travelled to the US on Monday to join their daughter and her family and take care of them.

Mirzakhani had been diagnosed with breast cancer four years ago, a year before she set the record of the first ever woman to win the prestigious Fields Medal, also known as the Nobel Prize of mathematics.

The medical team had put the genius mathematician under intensive care to treat her third recurrence of cancer.

In reaction to her death, Iranian space scientist Firouz Naderi said in his Instagram page, “A light was turned off today. It breaks my heart… Gone far too soon.”

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