Maryam Mirzakhani

Maryam Mirzakhani مریم میرزاخانی

The only Muslim Woman to Win the ‘Nobel Prize’ of Mathematics.

Full Name: Maryam Mirzakhani.

Persian: مریم میرزاخانی

Born: 1977.

Died: c. 2017.

Origin: Tehran, Iran.

Famous for: Mathematician.

Contributions: 

Simple geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces and the volume of the moduli space of curves.

Awards

  • The first Iranian woman to win a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in Hong Kong, 1994.
  • She became the first Iranian to achieve the full score and to win two gold medals in the International Mathematical Olympiad, 1995.
  • Blumenthal Award (2009)
  • Satter Prize (2013)
  • Clay Research Award (2014)
  • Fields Medal (2014)

Articles

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maryam-Mirzakhani

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2017/07/maryam-mirzakhani-stanford-mathematician-and-fields-medal-winner-dies

https://www.ams.org/profession/mirzakhani