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Maryam Mirzakhani (Persian: مریم میرزاخانی, pronounced [mæɾˈjæm miːɾzɑːxɑːˈniː]; 12 May 1977 – 14 July 2017) was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry. On 13 August 2014, Mirzakhani was honored with the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics, becoming the first woman to win the prize, as well as ...
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. The citation for her award recognized “her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their ...
Jul 15, 2017 · Mirzakhani was 40 years old. She died at Stanford Hospital. Professor Maryam Mirzakhani was the recipient of the 2014 Fields Medal, the top honor in mathematics. (Image credit: Courtesy Stanford ...
Weil-Petersson volumes and intersection theory on the moduli space of curves. M Mirzakhani. Journal of the American Mathematical Society 20 (1), 1-23. , 2007. 338. 2007. Isolation, equidistribution, and orbit closures for the SL (2, ℝ) action on moduli space. A Eskin, M Mirzakhani, A Mohammadi.
Jul 17, 2017 · July 17, 2017. The publicity-averse Maryam Mirzakhani, who died Friday, is the only woman ever to win the Fields Medal, math’s highest honor.Photograph by Mariana Cook. The Iranian mathematician ...
Maryam Mirzakhani from Stanford, the first and to-date only female winner of the Fields Medal died on July 14 after a long battle with cancer. 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.
Jul 16, 2017 · Maryam Mirzakhani was born on May 3, 1977, in Tehran. As a child, she read voraciously and wanted to become a writer. Iran was at war with Iraq at the time, but the war ended as she entered middle ...
Dec 28, 2017 · Maryam Mirzakhani. She drew her way to mathematical greatness. By GARETH COOK. Peering through a window into the landscape of numbers: Mirzakhani in 2014. Credit Thomas Lin/Quanta Magazine. M ...
Maryam Mirzakhani, the only woman to win a Fields Medal, died on July 14 at the age of 40. Mirzakhani was a professor at Stanford University and a highly original mathematician who made a host of striking contributions to geometry and dynamical systems. Her work bridges several mathematical disciplines—including hyperbolic geometry, complex analysis, topology, and dynamics—and in return deeply influenced them all. ...
Jul 17, 2017 · Last Friday, Stanford University mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and only woman to receive the Fields Medal, died at the age of 40, reports Kenneth Chang at The New York Times.. The ...
Jul 17, 2017 · The Sciences. Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman and first Iranian to win the Fields Medal, often described as the rough equivalent of a Nobel prize for mathematicians, died of metastatic breast ...
Jul 15, 2017 · Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to receive the prestigious Fields Medal for mathematics, has died in the US. The 40-year-old Iranian, a professor at Stanford University, had breast cancer which ...
Sep 7, 2017 · Mirzakhani was born in May 1977 in Tehran. She attended school there and twice won gold medals for Iran in the International Mathematical Olympiad. Being hailed as a genius allowed her to pursue ...
Maryam Mirzakhani's parents are Ahmad Mirzakhani, an electrical engineer, and Zahra Haghighi. She was born on 12 th May 1977, though some references incorrectly give 3 rd May as her birthday. Maryam said of her family (see [6] or [7]):- I grew up in a family with three siblings. My parents were always very supportive and encouraging. It was important for them that we have meaningful and satisfying professions, but they didn't care as much about success and achievement.
Dec 15, 2022 · Today, Mirzakhani is a global icon for women in science. "I am sure there will be many more women winning this kind of award in coming years," Mirzakhani said in 2014. Sadly, she was not there to witness the second woman to win the Fields Medal in 2022: Ukrainian Maryna Viazovska. Maryam Mirzakhani died in 2017 of breast cancer at the age of 40.
Born in 1977 in Tehran, Iran, Maryam Mirzakhani received her Ph.D. in 2004 from Harvard University, where her advisor was Curtis McMullen. From 2004 to 2008 she was a Clay Mathematics Institute Research Fellow and an assistant professor at Princeton University. She is currently a profes-sor at Stanford University. Her honors include the 2009 Blumenthal Award for the Advancement of Research in Pure Mathematics and the 2013 Satter
Jul 16, 2017 · Maryam Mirzakhani, a Stanford University professor who was the first and only woman to win the prestigious Fields Medal in mathematics, has died. She was 40. Mirzakhani, who battled breast cancer ...
Jul 20, 2017 · By Maryam Mirzakhani’s standards, such problems were mundane. In her world, the billiard tables were abstract geometric objects which stretched and warped. The problems involved not just one ...
Aug 12, 2014 · As an 8-year-old, Maryam Mirzakhani used to tell herself stories about the exploits of a remarkable girl. Every night at bedtime, her heroine would become mayor, travel the world or fulfill some other grand destiny. Today, Mirzakhani — a 37-year-old mathematics professor at Stanford University — still writes elaborate stories in her mind. The high ambitions haven’t changed, but the protagonists have: They are hyperbolic surfaces, moduli spaces and dynamical systems.
Aug 12, 2014 · Maryam Mirzakhani, a professor of mathematics at Stanford, has been awarded the 2014 Fields Medal, the most prestigious honor in mathematics. Mirzakhani is the first woman to win the prize, widely ...
Jul 21, 2017 · Geneius, humble, dedicated, etc, are only a handful of adjectives from the slew of obituaries dedicated to Maryam Mirzakhani, the Fields Medal-winning mathematician, who passed away on July 15, earlier this week. Mirzakhani won accolades all over the world when she became the first woman as well as the first Iranian to win the coveted Fields ...
Jul 22, 2017 · It was established in 1936. In 2014, Maryam Mirzakhani, then 37-years-old, a mathematician working at Stanford University, became the first woman to win the Fields Medal since its inception in ...
