Maryam Mirzakhani: Quick Facts


Facts

Born May 3, 1977 • Tehran • Iran
Died July 14, 2017 (aged 40) • Palo Alto • California
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (2014)
Subjects Of Study Euclidean geometry • Euclidean space • Riemann surface • hyperbolic space

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Apollonius of Perga
Greek mathematician
Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
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Vladimir Voevodsky
Russian mathematician
Ahlfors, Lars Valerian
Lars Valerian Ahlfors
Finnish mathematician
French philosopher Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician
Engraved portrait of Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler in profile, wearing a dark coat and ruffled white shirt, from the 1740s.
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
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Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
German mathematician
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Pappus of Alexandria
Greek mathematician
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Ibn al-Haytham
Arab astronomer and mathematician
Isaac Barrow, pencil drawing by David Loggan, 1676; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Isaac Barrow
English mathematician
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Heron of Alexandria
Greek mathematician
James Gregory.
James Gregory
Scottish mathematician and astronomer
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Girard Desargues
French mathematician
Colin Maclaurin, engraving by S. Freeman; in the British Museum.
Colin Maclaurin
Scottish mathematician
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Giovanni Ceva
Italian mathematician and engineer