Struggle to Success - Maryam Mirzakhani

Success comes easily to the smart and talented. Or does it?

Our second video in the series! In this video series, Struggle to Success, we take a look at a successful scientist or mathematician and a rocky part of their journey to success.

Check out our first video in the series in which we take a look at Stephen Hawking's journey to success:    • Struggle to Success - Stephen Hawking  

This video series is based on research on student motivation [1]. The researchers found that students in science who learned about how a scientist had struggled, either personally or intellectually, felt more connected to the scientist, were more motivated in their studies, and improved their class grades.

[1] Lin-Siegler, X., Ahn, J. N., Chen, J., Fang, F.-F. A., & Luna-Lucero, M. (2016). Even Einstein struggled: Effects of learning about great scientists’ struggles on high school students’ motivation to learn science. Journal of Educational Psychology, 108(3), 314-328

The following were used with permission:
Maryam Mirzakhani: A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces/International Mathematics Foundation
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Limit Set I Animation/Vladimir Bulatov
   • Limit Set I animation  

Math Formulas on Chalkboard/Video Farm
   • Math Formulas on Chalkboard| Free HD ...  

Spottsylvania/Jonah Tobias
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Prime Number Constillations/Jonah Tobias
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Remise de la médaille Fields à Maryam Mirzakhani/Florian Caullery
   • Remise de la médaille Fields à Maryam...  

Flower Wilting Time Lapse/ThatOneSummer
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The Line – Mandelbrot Fractal Zoom/Maths Town
   • The Line - Mandelbrot Fractal Zoom  

Softest Fabric/Pictures of the Floating World
freemusicarchive.org/music/Pictures_of_the_Floating_World/Softest_Fabric/Softest_Fabric

Break Through/Pictures of the Floating World
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Sinking/Pictures of the Floating World
freemusicarchive.org/music/Pictures_of_the_Floating_World/Appro/03_Sinking

99755864/Shutterstock
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1071243008/Shutterstock
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