Another loss due to breast cancer

Maryam Mirzakhani, First Woman to Win the Fields Medal, Is Dead at 40/

A shame

John F. Nash Jr., Math Genius Defined by a ‘Beautiful Mind,’ Dies at 86

John F. Nash Jr., a mathematician who shared a Nobel Prize in 1994 for work that greatly extended the reach and power of modern economic theory and whose long descent into severe mental illness and eventual recovery were the subject of a book and a film, both titled “A Beautiful Mind,” was killed, along with his wife, in a car crash on Saturday in New Jersey. He was 86.

Dr. Nash and his wife, Alicia, 82, were in a taxi on the New Jersey Turnpike in Monroe Township around 4:30 p.m. when the driver lost control while veering from the left lane to the right and hit a guardrail and another car, Sgt. Gregory Williams of the New Jersey State Police said

Yes, please

Thousands call for Turing apology

Alan Turning was a brilliant British mathematician and groundbreaking computer scientist. He is best known for being a code-breaker during World War II. But he was prosecuted in 1952 after admitting that he had a sexual relationship with a man. He lost his security clearance. He was 'treated' with chemical castration. Two years after the prosecution, he killed himself.

The call for an apology and posthumous pardon was begun by computer scientist John Graham-Cumming. He has also asked that Turing be knighted posthumously. I say, yes, it is about time.