Maryam Mirzakhani does not smoke. |
It is not known if Maryam Mirzakhani drinks alcohol. |
After being inspired by biographies of famous individuals and literature, such as Marie Curie, Helen Keller, and "Lust for Life" about Vincent van Gogh, Maryam desired to become a writer. |
She earned a gold medal in the 1994 International Mathematical Olympiad, becoming the first female Iranian student to do so. |
In 2014, the International Mathematical Union recognized her for her contributions to the theory of Riemann Surface. In February 2017, she was awarded the Fields Medal, likened to the Nobel Prize of Mathematics, becoming the first woman to receive this honor. |
Maryam Mirzakhani developed a formula to represent the volume of moduli space as a polynomial based on the number of boundary components. |
Her research encompasses Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry. |
Currently, she is a Mathematics professor at Stanford University in California. |
On July 15, 2017, Maryam Mirzakhani passed away after battling breast cancer for four years. |