Maryam Mirzakhani, (born May 3, 1977, Tehrān, Iran—died July 14, 2017, Palo Alto, California, U.S.), Iranian mathematician who became (2014) the first woman and the first Iranian to be awarded a Fields /Basic-Course/Week3/Maryam-Mirzakhani.pngg contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.”