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
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Mirzakhani talk
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Seoul ceremony
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Please see the pinned comment for discussion of point 1