Maryam Mirzakhani, Prize-Winning Mathematician, Dies At 40 - NPRNPRMaryam Mirzakhani, Prize-Winning Mathematician, Dies At 40NPRNearly three years after she became the first woman to win math's equivalent of a Nobel Prize, Maryam Mirzakhani has died of breast cancer at age 40. Her death was confirmed Saturday by Stanford University, where Mirzakhani had been a professor since ...Maryam Mirzakhani, world-renowned math genius and Stanford professor, dies at 40The Mercury NewsMaryam Mirzakhani, the only woman to win math's Fields Medal, dies at 40 after battle with breast cancerLos Angeles TimesMaryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win maths' Fields Medal, diesBBC NewsNewsweek -Telegraph.co.uk -The Independent -Stanford Reportall 59 news articles »