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Maryam Mirzakhani, the Glossary

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Maryam Mirzakhani (مریممیرزاخانی,; 12 May 1977 – 14 July 2017) was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University.^[1]

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20th-century Iranian scientists
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21st-century Iranian scientists
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Iranian women scientists
Scientists from Tehran
Tehran Farzanegan School alumni

African Women in Mathematics Association

The African Women in Mathematics Association (AWMA) is a professional society whose mission is to promote mathematics to African women and girls, to support women's careers in mathematics, to create equal opportunity and equal treatment in the African mathematical community, and to create a meeting place for mathematical African women.

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Ahvaz

Ahvaz (اهواز) is a city in the Central District of Ahvaz County, Khuzestan province, Iran.

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Alex Eskin

Alex Eskin (born May 19, 1965, Moscow, USSR, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago. Accessed 2019-09-07) is an American mathematician. Maryam Mirzakhani and Alex Eskin are dynamical systems theorists and Simons Investigator.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

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American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.

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Annals of Mathematics

The Annals of Mathematics is a mathematical journal published every two months by Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study.

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Association for Women in Mathematics

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences.

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Award

An award, sometimes called a distinction, is given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field.

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ÑuSat

ÑuSat satellite series (ÑuSat, sometimes translated into English as NewSat), is a series of Argentinean commercial Earth observation satellites.

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Bachelor of Science

A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin scientiae baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years.

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Benson Farb

Benson Stanley Farb (born October 25, 1967) is an American mathematician at the University of Chicago. Maryam Mirzakhani and Benson Farb are Topologists.

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Blumenthal Award

The Blumenthal Award was founded by the American Mathematical Society in 1993 in memory of Leonard M. and Eleanor B. Blumenthal.

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Breakthrough Prize

The Breakthrough Prizes are a set of international awards bestowed in three categories by the Breakthrough Prize Board in recognition of scientific advances.

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Breast cancer

Breast cancer is a cancer that develops from breast tissue.

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British Hong Kong

Hong Kong was a colony and later a dependent territory of the United Kingdom from 1841 to 1997, apart from a period of Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945 during the Pacific War.

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Classical mechanics

Classical mechanics is a physical theory describing the motion of objects such as projectiles, parts of machinery, spacecraft, planets, stars, and galaxies.

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Clay Mathematics Institute

The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) is a private, non-profit foundation dedicated to increasing and disseminating mathematical knowledge.

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Clay Research Award

The Clay Research Award is an annual award given by the Oxford-based Clay Mathematics Institute to mathematicians to recognize their achievements in mathematical research.

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Curtis T. McMullen

Curtis Tracy McMullen (born May 21, 1958) is an American mathematician who is the Cabot Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. Maryam Mirzakhani and Curtis T. McMullen are dynamical systems theorists, fields Medalists and institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.

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Earth observation

Earth observation (EO) is the gathering of information about the physical, chemical, and biological systems of the planet Earth.

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Earthquake map

In hyperbolic geometry, an earthquake map is a method of changing one hyperbolic manifold into another, introduced by.

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Ebadollah S. Mahmoodian

Ebadollah S. Mahmoodian (born 18 May 1943 in Zanjan, Iran) is a retired professor of mathematics at the Mathematical Sciences Department of Sharif University of Technology.

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Edward Witten

Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions to string theory, topological quantum field theory, and various areas of mathematics. Maryam Mirzakhani and Edward Witten are fields Medalists.

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Erdős number

The Erdős number describes the "collaborative distance" between mathematician Paul Erdős and another person, as measured by authorship of mathematical papers.

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Ergodic theory

Ergodic theory is a branch of mathematics that studies statistical properties of deterministic dynamical systems; it is the study of ergodicity.

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Ergodicity

In mathematics, ergodicity expresses the idea that a point of a moving system, either a dynamical system or a stochastic process, will eventually visit all parts of the space that the system moves in, in a uniform and random sense.

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European Women in Mathematics

European Women in Mathematics (EWM) is an international association of women working in the field of mathematics in Europe.

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Fars News Agency

The Fars News Agency is a news agency in Iran managed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), one of the three branches of the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces.

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Fields Medal

The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years. Maryam Mirzakhani and Fields Medal are fields Medalists.

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Fractal

In mathematics, a fractal is a geometric shape containing detailed structure at arbitrarily small scales, usually having a fractal dimension strictly exceeding the topological dimension.

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French Academy of Sciences

The French Academy of Sciences (French: Académie des sciences) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research.

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Genus (mathematics)

In mathematics, genus (genera) has a few different, but closely related, meanings.

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Geodesic

In geometry, a geodesic is a curve representing in some sense the shortest path (arc) between two points in a surface, or more generally in a Riemannian manifold.

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George Csicsery

George Paul Csicsery (born March 17, 1948) is a Hungarian-American writer and independent filmmaker who has directed 35 films including performance films, dramatic shorts and documentaries.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hassan Rouhani

Hassan Rouhani (حسن روحانی, Standard Persian pronunciation:; born Hassan Fereydoun (حسن فریدون); 12 November 1948) is an Iranian Islamist politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021.

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Hyperbolic geometry

In mathematics, hyperbolic geometry (also called Lobachevskian geometry or Bolyai–Lobachevskian geometry) is a non-Euclidean geometry.

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Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences

The Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM; پژوهشگاه دانشهای بنیادی, Pazhuheshgah-e Daneshhai-ye Boniadi), previously Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, is an advanced public research institute in Tehran, Iran.

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International Astronomical Union

The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) with the objective of advancing astronomy in all aspects, including promoting astronomical research, outreach, education, and development through global cooperation.

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International Congress of Mathematicians

The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics.

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International Mathematical Olympiad

The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is a mathematical olympiad for pre-university students, and is the oldest of the International Science Olympiads.

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International Mathematical Union

The International Mathematical Union (IMU) is an international organization devoted to international cooperation in the field of mathematics across the world.

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International Mathematics Research Notices

The International Mathematics Research Notices is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal.

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Inventiones Mathematicae

Inventiones Mathematicae is a mathematical journal published monthly by Springer Science+Business Media.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Iranian Mathematical Society

The Iranian Mathematical Society (IMS) is the main mathematical society in Iran.

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Iranian nationality law

Iranian nationality law contains principles of both jus sanguinis and jus soli.

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Iranian Students' News Agency

The Iranian Students' News Agency (خبرگزاری دانشجویان ایران) (ISNA, Persian: ایسنا) established in December 1999, is a news agency run by Iranian university students.

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Isfahan

Isfahan or Esfahan (اصفهان) is a major city in the Central District of Isfahan County, Isfahan province, Iran.

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Islamic Consultative Assembly

The Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majles-e Showrā-ye Eslāmī), also called the Iranian Parliament, the Iranian Majles (Arabicised spelling Majlis) or ICA, is the national legislative body of Iran.

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Jan Vondrák

Jan Vondrák is a Czech applied mathematician and theoretical computer scientist.

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Jordan Ellenberg

Jordan Stuart Ellenberg (born October 30, 1971) is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Maryam Mirzakhani and Jordan Ellenberg are international Mathematical Olympiad participants.

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Journal of the American Mathematical Society

The Journal of the American Mathematical Society (JAMS), is a quarterly peer-reviewed mathematical journal published by the American Mathematical Society.

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Le Monde

Le Monde (The World) is a French daily afternoon newspaper.

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Line (geometry)

In geometry, a straight line, usually abbreviated line, is an infinitely long object with no width, depth, or curvature, an idealization of such physical objects as a straightedge, a taut string, or a ray of light.

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List of minor planets: 321001–322000

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Manifold

In mathematics, a manifold is a topological space that locally resembles Euclidean space near each point.

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Marina Ratner

Marina Evseevna Ratner (Мари́на Евсе́евна Ра́тнер; October 30, 1938 – July 7, 2017) was a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who worked in ergodic theory. Maryam Mirzakhani and Marina Ratner are dynamical systems theorists.

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Mathematician

A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.

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Mathematics

Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.

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Matrilineality

Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line.

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Maxim Kontsevich

Maxim Lvovich Kontsevich (Макси́м Льво́вич Конце́вич,; born 25 August 1964) is a Russian and French mathematician and mathematical physicist. Maryam Mirzakhani and Maxim Kontsevich are fields Medalists, institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars and Topologists.

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McShane's identity

In geometric topology, McShane's identity for a once punctured torus \mathbb with a complete, finite-volume hyperbolic structure is given by where.

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Measure (mathematics)

In mathematics, the concept of a measure is a generalization and formalization of geometrical measures (length, area, volume) and other common notions, such as magnitude, mass, and probability of events.

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Metastatic breast cancer, also referred to as metastases, advanced breast cancer, secondary tumors, secondaries or stage IV breast cancer, is a stage of breast cancer where the breast cancer cells have spread to distant sites beyond the axillary lymph nodes.

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Minor Planet Center

The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is the official body for observing and reporting on minor planets under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

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Moduli space

In mathematics, in particular algebraic geometry, a moduli space is a geometric space (usually a scheme or an algebraic stack) whose points represent algebro-geometric objects of some fixed kind, or isomorphism classes of such objects.

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National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents

National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET; also known by its native acronym SAMPAD) is an Iranian organization founded in 1976 that governs a series of selective schools.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.

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New investigator

Certain scholarly funding agencies make a distinction between investigators and new investigators.

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Palo Alto, California

Palo Alto (Spanish for) is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.

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Prime number theorem

In mathematics, the prime number theorem (PNT) describes the asymptotic distribution of the prime numbers among the positive integers.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Quanta Magazine

Quanta Magazine is an editorially independent online publication of the Simons Foundation covering developments in physics, mathematics, biology and computer science.

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Riemann surface

In mathematics, particularly in complex analysis, a Riemann surface is a connected one-dimensional complex manifold.

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Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics

The Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics, also called the Satter Prize, is one of twenty-one prizes given out by the American Mathematical Society (AMS).

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Satellogic

Satellogic Inc. is a company specializing in Earth-observation satellites, founded in 2010 by Emiliano Kargieman and Gerardo Richarte.

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Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is an umbrella term used to group together the distinct but related technical disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

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Seoul

Seoul, officially Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest city of South Korea.

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Sharif University of Technology

Sharif University of Technology (SUT; دانشگاه صنعتی شریف) is a public research university in Tehran, Iran.

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Siavash Shahshahani

Siavash Mirshams Shahshahani (Persian: سیاوش میرشمس شهشهانی) (born 1942) is an Iranian mathematician. Maryam Mirzakhani and Siavash Shahshahani are 21st-century Iranian mathematicians.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.

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Small satellite

A small satellite, miniaturized satellite, or smallsat is a satellite of low mass and size, usually under.

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Sphere

A sphere (from Greek) is a geometrical object that is a three-dimensional analogue to a two-dimensional circle.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Stanford University Medical Center

Stanford University Medical Center is a teaching hospital which includes Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children's Health.

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Stanford, California

Stanford is a census-designated place (CDP) in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States.

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Symplectic geometry

Symplectic geometry is a branch of differential geometry and differential topology that studies symplectic manifolds; that is, differentiable manifolds equipped with a closed, nondegenerate 2-form.

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Tehran

Tehran (تهران) or Teheran is the capital and largest city of Iran as well as the largest in Tehran Province.

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Tehran Farzanegan School

Farzanegan Schools (مدرسه فرزانگان) are girls-only schools located in the cities of Iran, administered under the National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents.

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Teichmüller space

In mathematics, the Teichmüller space T(S) of a (real) topological (or differential) surface S is a space that parametrizes complex structures on S up to the action of homeomorphisms that are isotopic to the identity homeomorphism.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Theorem of the three geodesics

In differential geometry the theorem of the three geodesics, also known as Lyusternik–Schnirelmann theorem, states that every Riemannian manifold with the topology of a sphere has at least three simple closed geodesics (i.e. three embedded geodesic circles).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani

Also known as Myriam Mirzakhani.

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See also

20th-century Iranian scientists

20th-century Iranian women scientists

21st-century Iranian mathematicians

21st-century Iranian scientists

21st-century Iranian women scientists

Iranian Mathematics Competition Medalists

Iranian women scientists

Scientists from Tehran

Tehran Farzanegan School alumni

References