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Maryam Mirzakhani

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The artist of curved surfaces.

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Iranian mathematician and the first woman to win the Fields Medal (the Nobel Prize of Math).

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1977-2017. She doodled on massive sheets of paper to visualize complex hyperbolic geometry.

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Her work helps us understand the theoretical shape of the universe.