Maryam Mirzakhani, the world's outset woman someone Fields Medal winner too Persia's outset winner of that award, died of thorax cancer at an American infirmary today. The illness was recurrent too things became terrible when the illness spread to the os marrow.
She was born inwards 1977 to parents who ever supported her fifty-fifty though they weren't ever besides ambitious, she i time told me. Her begetter Ahmad is an electrical engineer. Maryam is also survived past times her Czech married adult man Jan Vondrák, a reckoner scientist at Stanford too their immature lady Anahita (*2011). For a while, nosotros were (theoretical physics!) classmates inwards Prague amongst him inwards belatedly 1994 and/or early on 1995 too he nosotros overlapped at Rutgers (in dissimilar dpts) inwards 1999-2001.
Maryam was born inwards Tehran inwards May 1977. As a kid, she wanted to write fiction novels. She was talented too then they accepted her to a high schoolhouse for exceptionally talented students, the "NODET" network, inwards Farzanegan. Sometime at that moment, someone pointed out to her that she was actually expert inwards mathematics. Her maturing every bit a mathematician looked automatic since that time. Both inwards 1994 too 1995, she won gilt medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad, the 2nd i was amongst a perfect score.
In 1999, she got her BSc from Sharif "MIT" inwards Tehran. Then she studied her PhD at Harvard when I was a Junior Fellow there. Curtis McMullen – a Fields medalist – was her adviser. She lastly got her PhD inwards 2004. She was right away offered an easier access to the Harvard Society of Fellows too then nosotros talked to her during several fancy dinners. Well, I mean value that I was sitting side past times side to her during all these occasions. I mean value it's correct to order that she was a pocket-size too shy genius, mayhap somewhat resembling Juan Maldacena inwards about respects.
She refused the offering to instruct a junior beau because she had something that ultimately looks improve than fifty-fifty the best postdoc-like jobs. In 2004, she accepted a junior faculty seat at Princeton patch she was also a enquiry beau at the Clay Mathematics Institute. The jobs in all likelihood overlapped. Now, her salary every bit junior faculty at Princeton close certainly trumped the salary of the Harvard Junior Fellows but if I were making this conclusion today, amongst everything I know, I would for sure conduct the Harvard Junior Fellowship at that time. At whatever rate, shortly afterwards, she shortly moved from Princeton to Stanford where she met her Czech married adult man – a deed that physicists refer to every bit a solution to the two-body problem.
She received the 2014 Fields Medal every bit the outset woman. It may live estimated that nether meritocratic conditions, a adult woman wins this medal i time inwards 103 years or so. Her medal was to a greater extent than oftentimes than non for her travel on the moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces, peculiarly for her 2007 proof of a formula for volumes of the moduli spaces (previously conjectured past times Witten, Kontsevich, guys of this caliber are normal inwards that field). However, she has done lots of related mathematical work that was commonly focusing on the modular group, moduli spaces, too geodesics – which were sometimes shown to live ergodic, sometimes really regular too non chaotic, too similar issues were relevant.
I believe that inwards general, thorax cancer is overdiagnosed too most of the women who undergo a handling would create simply OK without it. Sometimes, sadly, the diagnosis is too then topographic point on that fifty-fifty a handling isn't enough. Czech vocalist Anna K was simply diagnosed amongst thorax cancer for the 2nd time. She plans to create create it past times a string of concerts throughout the summer.
RIP, Maryam.