Where did Maryam Mirzakhani die?

Stanford Hospital at 300 Pasteur Drive, Palo Alto, California, United States

Hereof, when did Maryam Mirzakhani die?

July 14, 2017

Beside above, where did Maryam Mirzakhani live? Palo Alto

People also ask, how old was Maryam Mirzakhani when she died?

40 years (1977–2017)

Where did Maryam Mirzakhani work?

She became a full professor at Stanford University in California in 2008, by which time she was considered a leader in the fields of hyperbolic geometry, topology and dynamics. She stayed at Stanford until her death. Mirzakhani's PhD concerned Riemann surfaces.

Related Question Answers

What is the highest honor that someone can earn in mathematics?

The Fields Medal

Who was the first woman to win the Fields Medal?

Maryam Mirzakhani

Who was father of algebra?

Al-Khwarizmi

How much is a Fields medal worth?

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 (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years.

Fields Medal
Reward(s)	CA$15,000
First awarded	1936
Last awarded	2018
Website	Mathunion.org

When was Maryam Mirzakhani diagnosed with cancer?

2013

How did Maryam discover her love for mathematics?

As a child, she loved to read and her dream was to become a writer. However, in high school, she discovered her love of mathematics and began to take an interest in the problems of the Math Olympiad. In 1994, when she was 17 years old, she made the Iranian Math Olympiad team and won a gold medal.

Has a woman won the Fields Medal?

Mathematics World Mourns Maryam Mirzakhani, Only Woman to Win Fields Medal. Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman and first Iranian to win the Fields Medal, often described as the rough equivalent of a Nobel prize for mathematicians, died of metastatic breast cancer on July 14* at the age of 40.

What did Maryam Mirzakhani discover?

Mirzakhani made several contributions to the theory of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces. In her early work, she discovered a formula expressing the volume of the moduli space of surfaces of type (g,n) with given boundary lengths as a polynomial in those lengths.

Who gives Fields Medal?

the International Congress of Mathematicians

Where did Maryam Mirzakhani go to school?

Harvard University 2004 Sharif University of Technology 1999

What competition did Maryam Mirzakhani Star in 1994?

Mirzakhani was born in Tehran and in high school became the first female ever to compete on Iran's International Mathematical Olympiad team, according to her Stanford University obituary. She won gold medals in that competition in 1994 and 1995.

When was Maryam Mirzakhani born?

May 12, 1977

What was the great contribution of Mirzakhani in the field of mathematics?

Maryam Mirzakhani has made striking and highly original contributions to geometry and dynamical systems. Her work on Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces bridges several mathematical disciplines—hyperbolic ge- ometry, complex analysis, topology, and dynamics—and influences them all in return.