Maryam Mirzakhani
Iranian mathematician and professor
Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry. Wikipedia
Born: May 12, 1977, Tehran, Iran
Died: July 14, 2017 (age 40 years), Stanford Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA
Spouse: Jan Vondrák (m. 2008–2017)
Education: Harvard University (2004), Sharif University of Technology (1999), and Tabriz Farzanegan School
Parents: Ahmad Mirzakhani and Zahra Haghighi
Children: 1