An interesting article, on the life and work of Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian mathematician and immigrant, now...
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An interesting article, on the life and work of Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian mathematician and immigrant, now working at Stanford, who is subject to Trump's "Muslim ban" and was the first woman to win the Fields Medal - the so called Nobel Prize for Mathematics
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140812-a-tenacious-explorer-of-abstract-surfaces/
An interesting article, on the life and work of Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian mathematician and immigrant, now working at Stanford, who is subject to Trump's "Muslim ban" and was the first woman to win the Fields Medal - the so called Nobel Prize for Mathematics
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140812-a-tenacious-explorer-of-abstract-surfaces/
She may not be subject to the ban, if she is already a US citizen. (Evidence: citizenship is a requirement for NAS membership, I think.)
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, highlighting her case is a timely reminder of the benefits immigrants from Iran and elsewhere have brought us.
Whereas there have been many Saudi terrorists, there have been no Iranian. Yet Saudis are not temporarily banned and Iranians are. Of course Trump isn't the first president to produce such oil-cynical policies, but he is the first to maintain them while at the same time taking such extreme measures against people that don't directly commit acts of terror. (I say directly because Iran does support of Hezbollah)
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