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World Jul 15

Codebreaker Alan Turing to be the face of a new British banknote

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World Jul 15

Professor Maryam Mirzakhani, the recipient of the 2014 Fields Medal, the top honor in mathematics. She was the first woman in the prize’s 80-year history to earn the distinction.Photo courtesy of Stanford News Service.
Maryam Mirzakhani, groundbreaking mathematician and Fields Medal winner, dies at 40

Maryam Mirzakhani, who in 2014 became the first woman awarded the prestigious Fields Medal for mathematics, has died at the age of 40.

By Omar Etman

Education Aug 02

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Thinking about math in terms of literacy, not levels

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Nation May 24

‘A Beautiful Mind’ mathematician John Nash and wife killed in taxi crash

John Forbes Nash Jr., the Nobel laureate and Princeton mathematician, whose life story was the inspiration for the book and movie "A Beautiful Mind," was killed in an car accident along with his wife in New Jersey Saturday morning, New…

By Carey Reed

Nation Aug 13

Stanford professor first woman to receive ‘Nobel Prize’ for math

Maryam Mirzakhani, a mathematics professor at Stanford University in California, is the first woman to receive the Fields Medal -- considered the “Nobel Prize” of mathematics -- since the award was established in 1936.

By News Desk

Oct 02

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