Maryam Mirzakhani

Mathematician

1977-05-12

Quotes by Maryam Mirzakhani

• Most problems I work on are related to geometric structures on surfaces and their deformations.

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• Sometimes, properties of a fixed hyperbolic surface can be better understood by studying the moduli space that parameterises all hyperbolic structures on a given topological surface.

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• I don't have any particular recipe. It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck, you might find a way out.

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