9/03/2014

View of the Week: Honoring a great woman of numbers & Other Thoughts

 As our World is continuing to deal with the cancer of IS, the cancer of inequality, the cancer of climate change--some of the very things that are being deliberated in this "labor love", it is always great to see It is always beautiful to see tributes and to celebrate momentous achievements.    One eloquent one earlier today was a beautiful tribute done by the Chancellor of Chapman University, Daniel Struppa, in his tribute to Professor Maryam Mirzakhani in a recent edition of  the Orange County Register.   Professor Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal--the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for Mathematics.     As a Persian, it was ever so   gratifying to see this and shared it earlier  while on "Social Grid" earlier:


May we be witness to such momentous moments of history.

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