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- It is given every four years to a scholar or scholars under the age of 40 whose contributions significantly advance the field. Mirzakhani was honored for her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.
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Maryam Mirzakhani receiving the Fields Medal, August 2014. Mirzakhani made several contributions to the theory of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces. Mirzakhani's early work solved the problem of counting simple closed geodesics on hyperbolic Riemann surfaces by finding a
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.
Oct 12, 2017 · Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the International Mathematical Union’s premier prize the Fields medal, died aged 40 on 14 July 2017. Born and brought up in Tehran, Maryam went to Farzanegan, a high school for girls with exceptional talents.
Sep 7, 2017 · She was the first woman and first Iranian to win the Fields Medal, considered the highest honour in mathematics. For women, Mirzakhani was a role model, pursuing a successful career in a male...
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Aug 13, 2014 · 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...
Jul 17, 2017 · Mirzakhani had first received news of the Fields Medal in an e-mail from the Duke mathematician Ingrid Daubechies, then president of the International Mathematics Union, which adjudicates...
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.
