RantWoman notes this wonderful article about Maryan Mirzakhani, the first woman awarded the Fields medal
http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-a-tenacious-explorer-of-abstract-surfaces/
and from the Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/aug/13/fields-medal-mathematics-prize-woman-maryam-mirzakhani?CMP=fb_gu
RantWoman has NO illusions that saving a link is anything more than a scribble in an electronic notebook, but it's a truly inspiring story on so many levels.
RantWoman has eccentric experiences with billiards, but who knows what might have happened if she had let her mind wander around the geometries of all the fabric she used to sew from. And then there is also the brain gets fixated option....
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