Maryam Mirzakhani

Born in Tehran, she was educated at Tehran's Farzanegan school for gifted students and won gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1994 and 1995, with a perfect score in 1995. She took her bachelor's at Sharif University of Technology in 1999 and her doctorate at Harvard University in 2004, under Curtis McMullen. After a period at Princeton, she became a professor at Stanford University. ^{1 2}

Her research concerned Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory and symplectic geometry; her results on the growth of the number of simple closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces are among its landmarks. Beyond the Fields Medal she received the Blumenthal Award, the Satter Prize and the Clay Research Award, and she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016. Her birthday, 12 May, is now marked as the International Day of Women in Mathematics. ¹

Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013, she died at Stanford Hospital in California on 14 July 2017, aged forty. Iranian officials led by President Rouhani sent condolences, and several Iranian newspapers broke the customary rule by printing her photograph with her hair uncovered — a gesture the English article records without drawing any conclusion about her personal belief, and none is drawn here. ^{1 2}

Her faith is recorded as unknown. The Urdu article's text calls her the first Iranian and first Muslim personality to win the Fields Medal — a generic description in a single edition; the English, Persian and Arabic texts make no statement of her religion, the English categories include no religious filing, and Wikidata carries no religion value. No source names a school or affiliation for her, so no value is recorded; the evidence is preserved on her data record. ^{3 1 2 4}

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