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Jan 1, 2017 · Maryam Mirzakhani has made striking and highly. original contributions to geometry and dynamical sys. tems. Her work on Riemann surfaces and their moduli. spaces bridges several mathematical ...
It earned her a Fields Medal in 2014. Mirzakhani was born on May 12, 1977, in Tehran and grew up in postrevolutionary Iran during the Iran–Iraq War. One of four children, her father was an engineer, her mother a homemaker. All three of her siblings became engineers.
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Maryam Mirzakhani. Maryam Mirzakhani (Persian: مریم میرزاخانی, pronounced [mæɾˈjæm miːɾzɑːxɑːˈniː]; 12 May 1977 – 14 July 2017) was an Iranian [ 5 ][ 4 ] mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. [ 6 ][ 7 ] Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory ...
In 1995 Mirzakhani began her study of mathematics at Sharif University of Technology funded with an IPM fellowship. This university in Tehran, established in 1966, is the leading university in Iran for physical science. She said (see [6] or [7]):-. I met many inspiring mathematicians and friends at Sharif University.
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As a child growing up in Tehran, Mirzakhani had no intention of becoming a mathematician. Her chief goal was simply to read every book she could find. She also watched television biographies of famous women such as Marie Curie and Helen Keller, and later read “Lust for Life,” a novel about Vincent van Gogh. These stories instilled in her an undefin...
Gold medals at the mathematical Olympiad don’t always translate into success in mathematics research, McMullen observed. “In these contests, someone has carefully crafted a problem with a clever solution, but in research, maybe the problem doesn’t have a solution at all.” Unlike many Olympiad high-scorers, he said, Mirzakhani “has the ability to ge...
Mirzakhani likes to describe herself as slow. Unlike some mathematicians who solve problems with quicksilver brilliance, she gravitates toward deep problems that she can chew on for years. “Months or years later, you see very different aspects” of a problem, she said. There are problems she has been thinking about for more than a decade. “And still...
Mirzakhani is the first woman to win a Fields Medal. The gender imbalance in mathematics is long-standing and pervasive, and the Fields Medal, in particular, is ill-suited to the career arcs of many female mathematicians. It is restricted to mathematicians younger than 40, focusing on the very years during which many women dial back their careers t...
Jul 17, 2017 · On July 14, 2017, Maryam Mirzakhani, Stanford professor of mathematics and the only female winner of the prestigious Fields Medal in Mathematics, died at the age of 40. In just a few hours, her ...
d her a Fields Medal in 2014.Mirzakhani was born on May 12, 1977, in Tehran and grew up in postrevolutionary Ir. n during the Iran–Iraq War. One of four children, her father was an eng. neer, her mother a homemaker. All three of. er siblings became engineers. It was in middle school that she discovered her passi.
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