Maryam Mirzakhani

Maryam Mirzakhani is, for me, one of the most awe-inspiring figures in this entire database. The first woman ever to win the Fields Medal, she pushed the frontiers of hyperbolic geometry and dynamical systems, the kind of work most of us cannot even begin to follow. What moves me most is her playful spirit, the way she reportedly described her research like doodling, treating profoundly hard problems as a form of curiosity rather than labor. Losing her to cancer at just forty was a genuine loss for humanity, not only mathematics. I hold her up as proof that brilliance and joy can share the same mind.

Name (English)

Maryam Mirzakhani

Name (Japanese)

マリアム・ミルザハニ

Reading

まりあむ・みるざはに

Born

May 12, 1977 – July 14, 2017

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Snake

Origin

Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Occupation

mathematician / university teacher / topologist

University

Harvard University

Awards & achievements

• 2014 Clay Research Award
• 2013 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics
• 2009 Blumenthal Award
• 2014 Fields medal
• 2014 Nature's 10

• Official sitehttps://mmirzakhani.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam%20Mirzakhani
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9F%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B6%E3%83%8F%E3%83%8B
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1771279

Tags

• Tehran Province
• mathematician
• university teacher
• topologist

Last updated

2026-06-17

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