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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, and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Stanford professor is the first woman to win mathematics’ highest honor. Stanford mathematics Professor Maryam Mirzakhani investigates the geometry of abstract surfaces. Her work is pure mathematics, without immediately obvious application except for the inspiration it brings to students at Stanford and across the globe. In 2014, Mirzakhani ...
Mirzakhani's Clay Research Fellowship ran until 2008 when she left Princeton and was appointed as Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University. She had met Jan Vondrák, a theoretical computer scientist and applied mathematician who was a postdoctoral teaching fellow at Princeton University from 2006 to 2009 .
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 ...
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Jul 15, 2017 · Maryam Mirzakhani, 1977 - 2017. 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 ...
