WOMEN IN THE BACKROUND OF HISTORY

Tehran, Iran, May 12, 1977–Stanford, California, United States, July 14, 2017.

She was an Iranian mathematician and professor of mathematics at Stanford University. In 2014, she was awarded the Fields Medal, becoming the first woman to receive the prize.

Maryam Mirzakhani graduated with a degree in Mathematics from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran in 1999. In 2004, she earned her doctorate from Harvard University.[2] She pursued her career in the fields of Teichmüller space, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry. After completing her dissertation at Harvard University, she worked as a researcher at the Clay Mathematics Institute and Princeton University.

She was a researcher at Stanford University (USA). Her studies encompassed groundbreaking and original research on geometry and dynamical systems. Her work on Riemann surfaces and their spatial models connects several mathematical disciplines—hyperbolic geometry, complex analysis, topology, and dynamics—and has influenced all of them. She was a professor of mathematics at Stanford University from September 2008 until her death.

Her career makes her a true role model—not only for girls and women—in the field of mathematics. She was even featured in a comic about her professional and personal journey.

Mirzakhani described herself as a “slow” mathematician and said that “you have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of mathematics”; likewise, “the beauty of mathematics only reveals itself to more patient followers.” She also said, “You torture yourself, but no one said life was going to be easy.” To solve problems, Mirzakhani doodled on sheets of paper and wrote mathematical formulas around the drawings. Her daughter described her mother’s work as a “painting.” https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzajani