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It looks like her research is here: http://math.stanford.edu/~mmirzakh/Research.html http://math.stanford.edu/~mmirzakh/Research.html And the paper in questio
by MichaelBurge 9y ago
It looks like her research is here:
http://math.stanford.edu/~mmirzakh/Research.html http://math.stanford.edu/~mmirzakh/Research.html
And the paper in question that got the Fields Medal might be one of these:
http://math.stanford.edu/~mmirzakh/Papers/VA.pdf http://math.stanford.edu/~mmirzakh/Papers/VA.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1206.5574.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1206.5574.pdf
It looks like her work involved counting the number of equivalent paths between two points on surfaces that have been punctured.
- dbranes 9y agoCurtis McMullen describes Mirzakhani's prize-winning work here http://www.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/papers/home/text/papers/icm14/icm14.pdf http://www.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/papers/home/text/papers/icm... and as a talk at 2014 ICM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC7MZv1JH8w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC7MZv1JH8w