4 Things You Should Know About Maryam Mirzakhani
Maryam Mirzakhani was one of the best mathematicians of her generation, the first female recipient of the "nobel prize" of mathematics - here's how she did it!
People have pointed out two mistakes I made:
1. In the video I said Maryam stopped wearing a headscarf "towards the end of her life". Actually it was earlier than that.
2. I also say that Maryam was "the first woman ever to be shown in the Iranian media without a headscarf on". This is very inaccurate - many women have appeared in the media previously without a headscarf. However, it was an important editorial change for many newspapers to show her without a headscarf. More can be read about it here https://www.theatlantic.com/internati...
This video was created using a platform I am developing myself which you can find here https://github.com/hamishtodd1/hamish... but it will not be remotely user friendly, even less so than 3blue1brown's manim!
Credits
Artan Sheshmani tribute Tribute to Maryam Mirzakhani, by Arta...
Mirzakhani fields medal tribute, copyright Simons Foundation
https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/...
Application of geodesics in computer graphics (one of many!)
http://igl.ethz.ch/projects/developable/
Tesla factory
Video
Mirzakhani talk
Maryam Mirzakhani, Dynamics Moduli Sp...
Seoul ceremony
Seoul ICM2014 Opening Ceremony
Please see the pinned comment for discussion of point 1
People have pointed out two mistakes I made:
1. In the video I said Maryam stopped wearing a headscarf "towards the end of her life". Actually it was earlier than that.
2. I also say that Maryam was "the first woman ever to be shown in the Iranian media without a headscarf on". This is very inaccurate - many women have appeared in the media previously without a headscarf. However, it was an important editorial change for many newspapers to show her without a headscarf. More can be read about it here https://www.theatlantic.com/internati...
This video was created using a platform I am developing myself which you can find here https://github.com/hamishtodd1/hamish... but it will not be remotely user friendly, even less so than 3blue1brown's manim!
Credits
Artan Sheshmani tribute Tribute to Maryam Mirzakhani, by Arta...
Mirzakhani fields medal tribute, copyright Simons Foundation
https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/...
Application of geodesics in computer graphics (one of many!)
http://igl.ethz.ch/projects/developable/
Tesla factory
Video
Mirzakhani talk
Maryam Mirzakhani, Dynamics Moduli Sp...
Seoul ceremony
Seoul ICM2014 Opening Ceremony
Please see the pinned comment for discussion of point 1
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