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- In 1999 she received a B.Sc. degree in mathematics from the Sharif University of Technology in Tehrān. Five years later she earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University for her dissertation Simple Geodesics on Hyperbolic Surfaces and Volume of the Moduli Space of Curves.
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Born and raised in Tehran, Mirzakhani's passion for mathematics began at a young age. She earned her undergraduate degree from Sharif University of Technology and went on to pursue her PhD at Harvard University under the mentorship of Fields Medalist Curtis T. McMullen.
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.
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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Maryam Mirzakhani has been awarded the Fields Medal for her out-standing work on the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces. 1 Introduction. Mirzakhani has established a suite of powerful new results on orbit closures and invariant measures for dynamical systems on moduli spaces.
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She not only was a brilliant and fearless researcher, but she was also a great teacher and terrific PhD adviser. Maryam embodied what being a mathematician or scientist is all about: the attempt to solve a problem that hadn't been solved before, or to understand something that hadn't been understood before.
Aug 12, 2014 · Other mathematicians, however, describe Mirzakhani’s work in glowing terms. Her doctoral dissertation — about counting loops on surfaces that have “hyperbolic” geometry — was “truly spectacular,” said Alex Eskin, a mathematician at the University of Chicago who has collaborated with Mirzakhani.
Jul 15, 2017 · Maryam Mirzakhani, who wrote her PhD dissertation at the Harvard mathematics department in 2004 under the guidance of Curtis McMullen. Her mathematical work is in the interplay between dynamical systems theory and geometry.
