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Maryam Mirzakhani grew up wanting to be a writer, but she fell in love with math in high school. During her junior year, Mirzakhani and her best friend became the only Iranian women to qualify for the International Mathematical Olympiad. She won the gold medal both times she attended this competition and received a perfect score her senior year! She moved to the United States for graduate school at Harvard University and eventually became a professor at Stanford University. Mirzakhani’s work concentrated on several branches of theoretical mathematics, and she was particularly fascinated with the geometric and dynamic complexities of curved surfaces, like donut shapes, spheres, and amoebas. Her notable Ph.D. thesis was published in many top mathematical journals. One publication contained a new proof for the Witten conjecture, which connected mathematics and quantum gravity. In 2014, Mirzakhani became the only woman and Iranian to be awarded the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics!

Resource: https://online.aurora.edu/infographics/10-famous-women-mathematicians/

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