Screw you, breast cancer.
Maryam Mirzakhani 1977-2017
Genius, Immigrant, Woman, Irani, Mom, Professor. We would have been less without her.
Her doctoral dissertation, which she completed in 2004, solved two long-standing mathematical problems and led to publications in three major mathematics journals….University of Chicago mathematician Alex Eskin, described her contributions as “the kind of mathematics you immediately recognize belongs in a textbook.”
And it sounds like it’ll take some time to catch up to her work:
Her work is already widely influential in mathematics, with possible future use in engineering, cryptography and theoretical physics, including studies of the origin of the universe.
Gather your knowledge to find your way out of the jungle. Sounds like excellent advice:
“It is like being lost in a jungle,” she said, “and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck you might find a way out.”
Thank you, Maryam Mirzakhani.
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