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Maryam Mirzakhani

1977 - 2017

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Maryam Mirzakhani (Persian: مریم میرزاخانی, pronounced [mæɾˈjæm miːɾzɑːxɑːˈniː]; 12 May 1977 – 14 July 2017) was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry. On 13 August 2014, Mirzakhani was honored with the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics, becoming the first woman to win the prize, as well as the first Iranian. The award committee cited her work in "the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maryam Mirzakhani is the 425th most popular mathematician (down from 387th in 2019), the 243rd most popular biography from Iran (down from 242nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Iranian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Maryam Mirzakhani ranks 425 out of 1,004. Before her are Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Guido Fubini, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin, Ignazio Danti, and Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī. After her are Elwin Bruno Christoffel, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Yuri Manin, Gerhard Gentzen, William Thurston, and Al-Mahani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1977, Maryam Mirzakhani ranks 38. Before her are Brittany Murphy, Luca Toni, Michael Fassbender, Antonio Di Natale, A.J. Styles, and Chris Martin. After her are Robert Enke, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Katalin Novák, Michelle Hunziker, Arash, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Among people deceased in 2017, Maryam Mirzakhani ranks 164. Before her are Veljo Tormis, Cy Young, John Wetton, Stephen Paddock, Michael Parks, and Predrag Matvejević. After her are Henning Jensen, Quett Masire, Bayezid Osman, Jean d'Ormesson, Claude Rich, and Joaquín Navarro-Valls.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Maryam Mirzakhani ranks 243 out of 631. Before her are Shapur IV (null), Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai (1892), Phraates I (-190), Shams Pahlavi (1917), Al-Sarakhsi (1009), and Ibn Khuzayma (838). After her are Orodes I of Parthia (-190), Marjane Satrapi (1969), Al-Mahani (820), Mohammad Beheshti (1928), Daqiqi (1000), and Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī (1265).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Iran

Among mathematicians born in Iran, Maryam Mirzakhani ranks 9. Before her are Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (1236), Abu Nasr Mansur (960), Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (940), Al-Khazini (1077), Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1135), and Al-Karaji (953). After her are Al-Mahani (820), Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī (1265), Al-Nayrizi (865), Athir al-Din al-Abhari (1200), Al-Birjandi (null), and Kushyar Gilani (971).

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