Some Links

1. A nice portrait of Maryam Mirzakhani (NYT)

Three years ago, Mirzakhani, 37, became the first woman to win the Fields Medal, the Nobel Prize of mathematics. News of the award, and the obvious symbolism (first woman, first Iranian, an immigrant from a Muslim country) sat uneasily with her. She was puzzled when she discovered that some people thought mathematics was not for women — it was not an idea that she or her friends encountered growing up in Iran — but she was not inclined, by personality, to tell others what to think.

2. Similar operations using sed and awk

3. Wikipedia and Fake Claims (neurologica)