Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research focused on hyperbolic geometry, dynamical systems, complex analysis, and topology. In
Four Fields medallists left to right Artur Avila, Martin Hairer (at back), Maryam Mirzakhani (with her daughter) and Manjul Bhargava at the ICM 2014 in Seoul
Plaque for Mirzakhani Hall in Isfahan's House of Mathematics
The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union, a convention which takes place ev
The obverse of the Fields Medal features Archimedes