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Happy birthday to #mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017)! The Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious #math awards, is awarded to mathematicians < 40. In 2014, she became 1st woman to win. Her research included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, & symplectic geometry, and Fields committee cited her work in “the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces”.⁠
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Linocut portrait on 11”x14” white washi paper of Maryam Mirzakhani in a gradient of deep red at the bottom to dark blue at the top, 3/4 view from the top of her shoulders up. She has short hair, wears a tshirt and looks at the viewer. She is surrounded by mathematical doodles and diagrams in light blue.

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This is a closeup of one of my favorite shirts I rarely wear anymore. It’s a man’s button-up collared dress shirt made from 100% cotton by Jayne Barnes. In the 1990s, Barnes hired mathematicians to program her looms to make the most extraordinary weaves, like this one. As far as I can tell, she no longer makes clothes like this anymore. The only fine fabrics I ever see with this kind of complexity these days are made from synthetics. #mathart #weaving