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The inspiring story of Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian mathematician who made groundbreaking contributions to the geometry of Riemann surfaces and moduli spaces, becoming the first woman to receive the Fields Medal.
The extraordinary story of Srinivasa Ramanujan, who rose from poverty in colonial India to produce some of the most beautiful and mysterious formulas in the history of mathematics, only to die at the age of thirty-two.
The remarkable story of Emmy Noether, who overcame institutional sexism to transform abstract algebra and whose theorem linking symmetry to conservation laws remains one of the deepest results in mathematical physics.
The story of Alexander Grothendieck — a stateless refugee who became the most revolutionary mathematician of the twentieth century, rebuilt algebraic geometry from the ground up, and then walked away from it all.
Explore the extraordinary life and work of Terence Tao — from child prodigy competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad at age ten to Fields Medalist and one of the most prolific mathematicians alive.