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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maryam Mirzakhani has received more than 3,167,687 page views. Her biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Maryam Mirzakhani is the 387th most popular mathematician (up from 460th in 2019), the 241st most popular biography from Iran (up from 262nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Iranian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Maryam Mirzakhani ranks 387 out of 1,004. Before her are Rudolf E. Kálmán, William Sealy Gosset, William Jones, Elwin Bruno Christoffel, Richard Courant, and Grigory Margulis. After her are Lennart Carleson, Eugenio Beltrami, Ibn Sahl, John G. Kemeny, Stephen Cole Kleene, and Raymond Smullyan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1977, Maryam Mirzakhani ranks 38. Before her are Kanye West, Sarah Wayne Callies, Antonio Di Natale, Chris Martin, Katheryn Winnick, and Fabio Grosso. After her are Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Wan, Daddy Yankee, Hasan Salihamidžić, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and André Villas-Boas. Among people deceased in 2017, Maryam Mirzakhani ranks 161. Before her are Mildred Dresselhaus, Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria, Ulf Stark, Étienne Tshisekedi, Kate Millett, and Viktor Gorbatko. After her are Predrag Matvejević, Raymond Smullyan, John Wetton, Miloslav Vlk, Christine Keeler, and Dionigi Tettamanzi.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Maryam Mirzakhani ranks 241 out of 631. Before her are Aga Khan II (1830), Vardanes I (10), Esmail Ghaani (1957), Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi (1875), Ahmad Shamlou (1925), and Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad (985). After her are Shams Pahlavi (1917), Orodes I of Parthia (-190), Abdallah ibn Tahir al-Khurasani (798), Morteza Motahhari (1919), Marjane Satrapi (1969), and Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani (948).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Iran

Among mathematicians born in Iran, Maryam Mirzakhani ranks 9. Before her are Abu Nasr Mansur (960), Al-Khazini (1077), Al-Karaji (953), Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (1236), Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (940), and Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1135). After her are Athir al-Din al-Abhari (1200), Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī (1265), Al-Mahani (820), Kushyar Gilani (971), Al-Nayrizi (865), and Abu Said Gorgani (850).

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