Maryam Mirzakhani, the First Woman Ever to Win Top Math Prize

Maryam Mirzakhani, a Muslim mathematician who was born Thursday, May 5, 1977 in Tehran (Iran). She was a young brilliant superstar, famous specialist in the geometry of unusual shapes (her favourite field) and first-rate mathematician with great human qualities, humbleness, deep curiosity, distinguished talent. Maryam Mirzakhani was an amazing woman who excelled at Mathematics thanks to her perfect knowledge of a wide variety of mathematical techniques, rare combination of technical abilities and disparate mathematical cultures. She received the Fields Medal on Wednesday, August 13, 2014 within the opening day of the International Congress of Mathematicians at Seoul (South Korea). She died (at age 40) on Friday, July 14, 2017 at Stanford Hospital in Stanford (California). Upon her death, in Iran, his country of origin, President of the Republic and other officials, politicians and the media praised her memory. Most Iranian newspapers published Mirzakhani's photographs, including without veil, to salute the memory of this mathematician who died of metastatic breast cancer she had been fighting for four years, leaving orphan her little daughter Anahita Vondráková.