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Jul 17, 2017 · From the very beginning, from a very young age, it was clear that she had very big goals.” When Mirzakhani was in sixth grade, in Tehran, a teacher discouraged her interest in mathematics ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Biography. Maryam Mirzakhani's parents are Ahmad Mirzakhani, an electrical engineer, and Zahra Haghighi. She was born on 12th May 1977, though some references incorrectly give 3rd May as her birthday. Maryam said of her family (see [6] or [7]):-. I grew up in a family with three siblings.
Sep 7, 2017 · She died aged 40 from breast cancer on 14 July. Mirzakhani was born in May 1977 in Tehran. She attended school there and twice won gold medals for Iran in the International Mathematical Olympiad ...
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Oct 11, 2024 · 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. The citation for her award recognized “her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their ...
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Dec 28, 2017 · She had, Vondrak said, “100 years of plans.”. 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 ...
