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  1. 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.

  2. Jul 10, 2015 · Maryam Mirzakhani (born May 3, 1977, Tehrān, Iran—died July 14, 2017, Palo Alto, California, U.S.) was an Iranian mathematician who became (2014) the first woman and the first Iranian to be awarded a Fields Medal.

  3. Summary. Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician who worked in America and was the first woman to be awarded a Fields Medal. She worked in the geometry of Riemann surfaces. View five larger pictures. Biography. Maryam Mirzakhani's parents are Ahmad Mirzakhani, an electrical engineer, and Zahra Haghighi.

  4. 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.

  5. Jul 17, 2017 · The Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, who died on Friday, at the age of forty, was known to her colleagues as a virtuoso in the dynamics and geometry of complex surfaces—“science-fiction...

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  6. A glass ceiling was broken in 2014 when Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani was honored with the Fields Medal. She was the first woman and the first Iranian to win this top award in mathematics.

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  8. Sep 7, 2017 · Maryam Mirzakhani was one of the greatest mathematicians of her generation. She made monumental contributions to the study of the dynamics and geometry of mathematical objects called Riemann...

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