Minister: Iranian female elites play major role in world innovation

Vaezi made the remarks in an Instagram post released on Saturday as regards death of Iranian math elite Maryam Mirzakhani.

Iranians’ intelligence has brought about innovation and development in many scientific centers of the world, he added.

Late Mirzakhani was definitely one of the most paramount scientists in the past 100 years in the world.

The Iranian winner of Fields Medal, also known as the Nobel Prize of mathematics, and Stanford University professor, Mirzakhani, passed away at 40 in a hospital in the US on Saturday.

In 1994, Mirzakhani won a gold medal in the Hong Kong International Mathematical Olympiad, to be the first female Iranian student to have received a gold medal. In the 1995 Toronto International Mathematical Olympiad, she became the first Iranian student to receive a perfect score and to win two gold medals.

She obtained her BSc in mathematics (1999) from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran. She went to the US and got a PhD from Harvard University in 2004.

Mirzakhani (b. May 3, 1977) was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013, a year before she set the record of the first ever woman to win the prestigious Fields Medal in mathematics.

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