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