Charlie McHenry<p>Happy <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/Nowruz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nowruz</span></a> to all who celebrate. Makes much more sense to me to celebrate the <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/NewYear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYear</span></a> at the beginning of spring on an astronomically significant day rather than on some odd, astronomically insignificant day in mid-winter. I mean, what’s up with that anyway? So to celebrate Nowruz, which BTW is observed by an enormous population including in Iran, Central and South Asia, I’m posting a short video memorial to one of the greatest <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/mathematicians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematicians</span></a> ever, who happened to be an <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/Iranian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Iranian</span></a> woman, Maryam Mirzakhani. The first woman to win the Field’s Prize, math’s equivalent to the Nobel, Mirzakhani broke barriers and forever changed her chosen field. A Harvard graduate and former professor at both Princeton and Stanford, she deserves more attention than she gets. Regrettably, she died far too young at 40. May the new year bring us more genius minds like hers. <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/STEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>STEM</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=W2VXXfDIF9g&si=loDGsvosaP0bBCg8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=W2VXXfDIF9</span><span class="invisible">g&si=loDGsvosaP0bBCg8</span></a></p>