Fields-Medaillen Gewinnerin und Malerin Maryam Mirzakhani. Es ist faszinierend, wie sie auf einer riesigen Rolle Papier kniet und kleine Gebilde zeichnet, um den Geheimnissen der Riemann-Topologie auf die Spur zu kommen. As she thinks about mathematics, Mirzakhani constantly doodles, drawing surfaces and other images related to her research. “She has these huge pieces of paper on the floor and spends hours and hours drawing what look to me like the same picture over and over,” Vondrak said, adding that papers and books are scattered haphazardly about her home office. “I have no idea how she can work like this, but it works out in the end,” he said. Perhaps, he speculates, that is because “the problems she is working on are so abstract and complicated, she can’t afford to make logical steps one by one but has to make big jumps.” Doodling helps her focus, Mirzakhani said. When thinking about a difficult math problem, “you don’t want to write down all the details,” she said. “But the process of drawing something helps you somehow to stay connected.” Mirzakhani said that her 3-year-old daughter, Anahita, often exclaims, “Oh, Mommy is painting again!” when she sees the mathematician drawing. “Maybe she thinks I’m a painter,” Mirzakhani said. [1] #fieldsmedal #fieldmedaille #mathematics #mathematik [1] simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-a-tenacious-explorer-of-abstract-surfaces/
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