[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 122 (Wednesday, July 19, 2017)]
[House]
[Page H5990]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       HONORING MARYAM MIRZAKHANI

  (Mr. McNERNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McNERNEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life and work of 
Maryam Mirzakhani. Maryam was born and raised in Iran where she was the 
first female on Iran's International Mathematical Olympiad team, 
winning gold medals in 1994 and 1995, and was the first Iranian woman 
elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
  She moved to the United States to attend graduate school at Harvard 
University and became a 2004 research fellow of the Clay Mathematics 
Institute and a professor at Princeton University. In 2008, she became 
a professor at Stanford University. In 2014, Maryam was the first woman 
ever to be bestowed with the most prestigious mathematical award, the 
Fields Medal, for her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and 
geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.
  The Fields Medals are awarded every 4 years to people aged 40 or 
younger. Maryam was an amazing mathematician, socially engaging, and 
involved in the local community. Maryam Mirzakhani died last week at 
the age of 40, a tragedy not only for her family and friends but for 
the additional beautiful mathematics she would have given the human 
race had she been blessed with a long career.

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