Maryam Mirzakhani
| Maryam Mirzakhani | |
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| Born |
Persian: مریم میرزاخانی 3 May 1977 Tehran, Iran |
| Residence | Palo Alto, California, United States |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Fields | Mathematics |
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| Thesis | Simple geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces and the volume of the moduli space of curves (2004) |
| Doctoral advisor | Curtis T. McMullen |
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Maryam Mirzakhani (Persian: مریم میرزاخانی), born on May 3, 1977, is an Iranian-American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research topics include Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry.
On 13 August 2014, Mirzakhani became both the first woman and the first Iranian honored with the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics. The award committee cited her work in "the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces".
Mirzakhani was born in 1977 in Tehran, Iran. She went to high school in Tehran at Farzanegan, National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET).
In 1994, Mirzakhani won a gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad, the first female Iranian student to do so. In the 1995 International Mathematical Olympiad, she became the first Iranian student to achieve a perfect score and to win two gold medals.
She obtained her BSc in mathematics (1999) from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran. She went to the United States for graduate work, earning a PhD from Harvard University (2004), where she worked under the supervision of the Fields Medalist Curtis McMullen. She was also a 2004 research fellow of the Clay Mathematics Institute and a professor at Princeton University.
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