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Stanford mathematics Professor Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and to-date only woman mathematician to win the Fields Medal since its inception in 1936, died in USA on Friday, 14 July 2017, at the age of 40, after a four-year battle with metastatic breast cancer. Prominent mathematicians world-wide reacted to her deathas follows: Peter Clive Sarnak, a mathematician at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study said ‘her death is a big loss and shock to the mathematical community worldwide.She was in the midst of doing fantastic work.
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