Maryam Mirzakhani talks about his path from his childhood

The famous diary Quanta Magazine of Simons Foudation also devotes an entire article to the researcher. Pure product of the ultra-elitist education system in Iran, the mathematician does not least his doctorate at Harvard University in the United States under the direction of another winner of the Fields Medal, Curtis McMullen . coloring pages for adults After his graduation in 2004, she spent several years at Princeton before moving to Stanford where she is a professor since 2008 can find more details on its trajectory in a interview she granted and in the video below --Bra which supplements.

In this short video in English, accompanied by personal photos, the winner of the Fields Medal in 2014, the Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani talks about his path from his childhood as well as his work on Riemann surfaces which sometimes look like tori glued together to make pretzels. For a French translation, click the rectangle with two horizontal bars on the bottom right. Subtitles in English should then appear, if it is not already. By simply moving the mouse over the rectangle, you should see the words "Translate subtitles." Click to bring up the menu language selection, select "French" and then click "OK". © tywebbOOOOO, YouTube

Born in 1977 in Tehran, she was part of a generation she described as lucky, that is, those whose adolescence was held after the Iran-Iraq war. Initially, she did not intend to become a mathematician and was interested in all the books that could fall into his hands. Leaving primary school, she was for a time an unpleasant experience with mathematics. One of his teachers even thought she was not particularly good, which was a source of discouragement for her, temporarily breaking his nascent interest in mathematics.