I don’t have any particular recipe. It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck, you might find a way out. Maryam Mirzakhani Read Quote
I did poorly in math for a couple of years in middle school; I was just not interested in thinking about it. Maryam Mirzakhani Read Quote
I don’t think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don’t give mathematics a real chance. Maryam Mirzakhani Read Quote
When I entered Harvard, my background was mostly combinatorics and algebra. Maryam Mirzakhani Read Quote
I can see that, without being excited, mathematics can look pointless and cold. Maryam Mirzakhani Read Quote
Most problems I work on are related to geometric structures on surfaces and their deformations. Maryam Mirzakhani Read Quote
