Maryam Mirzakhani Age, Husband, Death Cause, Family, Biography & More

Bio
Real Name	Maryam Mirzakhani
Nickname	Not Known
Profession	Mathematician
Physical Stats & More
Height	in centimeters- 157 cm in meters- 1.57 m in Feet Inches- 5’ 2”
Weight	in Kilograms- 50 kg in Pounds- 110 lbs
Eye Colour	Blue
Hair Colour	Dark Brown
Personal Life
Date of Birth	3 May 1977
Date of Death	15 July 2017
Death Cause	Breast Cancer
Age (as in 2017, at the time of death)	40 Years
Birth Place	Tehran, Iran
Zodiac sign/Sun sign	Taurus
Nationality	Iranian
Hometown	Tehran, Iran
School	Farzanegan High School, Tehran, Iran
College	Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Educational Qualifications	PhD in Mathematics
Family	Father- Ahmad Mirzakhani Mother- Not Known Brother- 1 (Elder) Sister- Not Known
Religion	Islam
Address	450 Serra Mall Bldg. 380 Stanford, CA
Hobbies	Reading novels, writing
Favourite Things
Favourite Mathematicians	Maxim Kontsevich, Curtis T. McMullen, Edward Witten
Favourite Book	Lust for Life by Irving Stone
Boys, Affairs and More
Marital Status	Married
Affairs/Boyfriends	Not Known
Husband/Spouse	Jan Vondrák (Theoretical Computer Scientist, m.2005 - present)
Marriage Date	24 March 2005
Children	Son- N/A Daughter- Anahita

Some Lesser Known Facts About Maryam Mirzakhani

• Does Maryam Mirzakhani smoke?: No

• Does Maryam Mirzakhani drink alcohol?: Not Known

• After watching TV biographies of famous personalities such as Marie Curie, Helen Keller, and reading the novel “Lust for Life“, about Vincent van Gogh, Maryam aspired to be a writer.

• She won a gold medal in the 1994 International Mathematical Olympiad and became the first female Iranian student to achieve it.

• In 2014, The International Mathematical Union decided to honor her after she discovered new advances in the theory of Riemann Surface, and in February 2017, she became the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal, popularly known as the Nobel Prize of Math. 

• She discovered a formula to express the volume of moduli space as a polynomial in the number of boundary components.

• Her research includes Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry.

• At present, she teaches Mathematics at Stanford University, California. 

• On 15 July 2017, she passed away after a 4-year battle with breast cancer.