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Maryam Mirzakhani - Mathematician

“The more time I spent doing math, the happier I was,” declared Maryam Mirzakhani just before her last breath. This gifted Iranian mathematician who made a considerable contribution to the world of mathematics, sensitive, humble and passionate, was born in Teheran on May 12, 1977. She married Jan Vondrak, a theoretical computer scientist and applied Mathematician. She was passionate about novels and hoped to become a writer. However, her interest in mathematics was to be awakened by a work on Carl Friedrich that his older brother presented to her. This work explains in detail a method for calculating the sum of integers from 1 to 1000. Eventually Maryam was able to discover the art of mathematical reasoning. In 1994 she won first prize for the second year with a score of 40 points out of 42 at the International Mathematics Olympiad in Hong Kong. From Sharif University of Technology in Teheran her passion for mathematics took her to Harvard University in the United States to continue her higher studies. Assisted by Professor Curtis McMullen, she carried out her research into hyperbolic geometry and the dynamics of Riemann surfaces. Her thesis on Riemann surfaces and moduli spaces was so exceptional that it was praised by the international mathematical community. Benson Farb had to declare: "Most Mathematicians will never produce something as good (...) And she did it in her thesis. Maryam's most famous contributions to mathematics were her work on trajectory counting, connecting geometry and topology to fields that are not really associated with geometry and topology as well as statistics and probability theory. She is nicknamed "The Shooting Star" in the mathematical world. Died on July 14, 2017 at the age of 40 following breast cancer, Maryam Mirzakhani marked International Women in Mathematics Day celebrated on July 2, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. "You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math” declared Maryam, representing herself as a slow Mathematician. The mathematical world cannot forget this declaration of Maryam:”I don't have any particular recipe [for developing new proofs] ... It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck, you might find a way out.” Her work published at the Institute of Mathematics https://ima.org.uk>Publications>MathematicsToday She made notable contributions to geometry and dynamic systems and topology https://www.mathunion.org. She was the first woman to win Math Nobel’s Prize https://www.nasonline.org/assets/content-images/awards/awards-sections/header-mirzakhani-prize-mathematics.jpg https://www.nasonline.org. The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani is found here: http:www.zalafilms.com>

Maryam received the Gold medal. International Mathematical Olympiad, Hong Kong 1994, Gold medal. International Mathematical Olympiad, Canada 1995, Merit fellowship Harvard University, 2003, an Harvard Junior Fellowship Harvard University, 2003, a Clay Mathematics Institute Research Fellow 2004. She was invited to talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, about “Topology and Dynamical Systems” and ODE. She was elected foreign associate to the French Academy of Sciences and to the American Philosophical Society in 2015.