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I Never Met Maryam Mirzakhani, tie Stevens, and a portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo
but I Knew Her So Well painted by her husband Diego Rivera.
I did not know Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and only Nettie was a geneticist who identified the Y chromo-
woman to win a Fields Medal in mathematics. She died some, found that it pairs with X, and that sex is determined
by the presence or absence of chromosome Y. Frida was
earlier this month, claimed at age 40 by breast cancer. Had
an intersection of passion, talent, color, and suffering.
she lived, we would finally have met in person this sum-
Maryam was the only woman to ever receive the Fields
mer at the 2017 meeting of the Pacific Rim Mathematical
Medal, often thought of as the Nobel Prize of Mathemat-
Association, or PRIMA, where we were both scheduled to
ics. The cards have been on my bedside table since I got
give talks.
them, with Maryam's visible on top of the small pile. I will
Our paths never crossed. And yet, we had things in com-
keep them near, as a reminder to be the best person I can
mon, so many that my heart aches and her loss invades me.
possibly be. A reminder also that we never know where
I speak not just for myself but for so many other
or when the path will end.
women. Like Maryam, we too, are mathematicians and
Nettie, I just learned, died of breast cancer in 1912 at
scientists. We are mothers. We are immigrants. We are
age 50. She had earned her PhD just nine years earlier, and
resilient. And we are committed to making this a better
had only recently been offered a research professorship.
world.
Maryam was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 37, and
We are in love with the idea of inspiring the next genera-
died three years later, on July 14, 2017. My cancer was
tion, especially little girls, our own little girls, and those
found a few months after my 40th birthday. This summer
whose environment oppresses and diminishes them with marks five years from the end of treatment. I am very
the whisper “you cannot be...”. fortunate and look up to these powerful women.
A few months ago, I received an invitation to give a I never met Maryam, but I knew her well.
plenary talk at PRIMA. I heard that Maryam was also sched- Let's take a short detour in time, a flashback: I am re-
uled to speak. I was so excited by the prospect of finally covering from surgery and will go through chemotherapy,
meeting her! The fact that this would happen in Mexico, when I am offered a chance to teach children, showing
my native country, in one of my favorite cities, was the them that math is fun. Half of the children are girls. “It is
cherry on the cake. important, I will do it.”
Knowing how large these conferences are and how Going through radiotherapy, I am mentoring graduate
quickly the time passes, I decided to write to her to in- students, writing reports and peer-reviews, and prepar-
troduce myself and find a time to meet in the beautiful ing for an upcoming plenary talk at the SIAM Life Science
city of Oaxaca. Meeting. “It is important, I will go.” But the brain was foggy
I did not get to send that message. PRIMA starts next and the inner voice treacherous: you will never be able to
month; Maryam will not be there. The schedule includes 14 go back, why even try? And as the body ached and the de-
plenary talks, four by female speakers, including Maryam. structive inner voice gained strength I received that email
If we are three out of thirteen, that will only be 23 percent, from the White House announcing that I had been selected
less than one quarter. Unfortunately, this is not atypical to receive a 2012 Presidential Early Career Award. Get up
in math conferences. and stop this nonense! This is your path and you will not
It is the scarce researchers like Maryam who have stop. Just put one foot ahead of the other, and keep going.
been pushing the numbers up, decimal by decimal. Why? The invitations and requests keep coming: Can you
Because we must. In the process, we see transformation come? Can you do it? We really really want you. Can you
that fills us with joy. That is the fuel that keeps us mov- come? Yes. Yes. Yes… Sometimes the answer goes late as
ing forward. we try to juggle things around to make it happen. It pains
While strolling in San Francisco earlier this summer, us when the answer must be a no. Pushing through pain
I went into Dog Eared Books on Castro Street. Near the and fatigue, through fear and uncertainty. Never passing
exit I browsed through a bin of postcards: landscapes, an opportunity to inspire, because there are too many
birds, botanicals, art reproductions, photographs and women, and too many minorities who have dropped their
images from the Women in Science collection by Rachel dream for lack of role models, for their need of affirma-
Ignotofsky: There Maryam was, almost flying, drawing tion. Our voices need to be heard.
with two hands, topological spaces all around. I took her And so I will continue to honor Maryam with my actions.
picture home, along with another woman in science, Net- At the PRIMA meeting, I will give the best possible plenary
talk. I will also honor her during the public lecture. I will help in finding known solutions, particularly those that do
speak in the public square, find ways to dress math in the not refer to the original title or its updates. We will also be
colors and imagery that will attract children and curious looking for suitable new problems for the list. Please email
teenagers, look to inspire them, and to help their parents such information to me at the address below.
see that there is always a way up. —Eleanor Lingham
Despite the poverty and the violence, despite the politi- Sheffield Hallam University
cians, there is another way and sometimes all it takes is to e.lingham@shu.ac.uk
know that the path exists and that someone like Maryam
has already traversed it. We must see ourselves and our Received June 5, 2017
own inner strength as a reflection of hers.
Rest In Peace Maryam Mirzakhani, may your light con-
In Support of Piper Harron
tinue to shine and inspire everyone to be what they want, As a mathematician who is a white woman, it was very
despite what others may say or think. challenging to read Piper Harron’s May 11, 2017, AMS
—Mariel Vazquez1 blog post, “Get Out the Way.”1 However, I’m also a tenured
Professor of Mathematics and faculty member at a regional public university where very
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics few of my students look like me. So it’s important to me
University of California, Davis to remember that discomfort with what I’m hearing from
mrlvazquez@ucdavis.edu people of color means I should listen harder and sit with
the discomfort for a while.
Harron wrote, “Not to alarm you, but I probably want
Received July 21, 2017
you to quit your job, or at least take a demotion. Statis-
EDITOR'S NOTE. We are planning a Maryam Mirzakhani tically speaking, you are probably taking up room that
memorial for a future issue of Notices. should go to someone else. If you are a white cis male
(meaning you identify as male and you were assigned male
at birth) you almost certainly should resign from your
Hayman's List position of power. That’s right, please quit.” The mildest
In 1967, Walter K. Hayman (Imperial College) published criticism Harron received in response to that proposal is
understandable, and many reasonable people have said it
a slim volume entitled Research Problems in Function
or may think it: She wrote something so outrageous that
Theory. Walter has over 200 publications to his name,
she deserves the backlash. I’m writing this letter because I
including five textbooks and a definitive proof of the
think it’s worthwhile to ask the reasonable people in our
asymptotic Bieberbach conjecture. He has received hon-
community who have that response to listen harder and
orary degrees from universities in four countries, and he
sit with this for a while.
co-founded the British Mathematical Olympiad in 1967
Context: As you know, fewer than 1% of tenured math
with his wife Margaret Hayman. At the age of 91, Walter
professors at US doctorate-granting universities are black
is almost the oldest member of the London Mathematical
women.2 One percent are black men. Most of us agree it’s
Society and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society for over a huge problem, it’s complex, and the causes of it reach
sixty years. He has published a very colourful autobiogra- far into every aspect of American education and culture.
phy entitled My Life and Functions1. Harron wrote her essay in that context.
Research Problems in Function Theory contains 141 Harron’s essay, starting with an obvious solution to
conjectures in seven areas of function theory, including the problem and going from there, presents a solution
meromorphic functions, Nevanlinna theory, and functions that isn’t going to happen. This bears repeating, since
in the unit disk. One problem, commonly known as the the alt-right media have gotten so worked up about this,
Sendov conjecture, has since led to the publication of over and their reaction is bringing attention to Harron into the
80 research papers: mainstream press. It’s not ever going to happen. So let’s
Problem 4.5: Let P(z) be a polynomial whose zeros z1, look at the suggestion as a rhetorical device. It reminded
z2 , . . . , zn lie in |z| ≤ 1. Is it true that P' (z) always has a me of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s re-
zero in |z − z1| ≤ 1? sponse when asked how many women needed to be on
An asymptotic version of the conjecture has been the Supreme Court for her to think there were enough.
proved. She answered, “Nine.” In a similar way, Harron’s essay was
There have been six updates of Hayman's List over the pretty amazing at forcing me to examine my perspective
years, each detailing progress on existing problems, as well and assumptions about this system that I was trained in
as adding new ones. This year, for the fiftieth anniversary and now work in that was created and is run mostly by
of the publication of the original book, Walter and I are white men. Turning it upside down like she did stunned
hoping to publish an update to the list and request your me, in a good way.
Vazquez1: Vazquez has provided a Spanish version of this Wrinkle1:
blogs.ams.org/inclusionexclusion/2017/05/11/
letter at www.smm.org.mx/maryam.pho . get-out-the-way .
Lingham1: Reviewed by David Drasin in the May 2015 Notices Wrinkle2:Conference
Board of Mathematical Sciences (CBMS)
www.ams.org/notices/201505/rnoti-p517.pdf. Survey Reports 2010, Table F.5.
ERRATUM: For the August feature title on “How the Green Light was Given for Gravitational Wave
Search,” in some places “Search” was erroneously replaced by “Research” Notices regrets the error.
From left to right: Christine Heitsch, Jonathan R. Kujawa, Govind Menon, Kevin Pilgrim, and Bruce Sagan.
Make the time to visit any of the AMS Fall Sectional Meetings.
In this sampler, the speakers above have kindly provided introductions to their Invited
Addresses for the upcoming AMS Fall Sectional Meetings.
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Course Organizer
Keenan Crane, Carnegie Mellon University
Lecture Topics
• Discrete Laplace Operators, Max Wardetzky, University
of Göttingen
• Discrete Parametric Surfaces, Johannes Wallner,
Technische Universität Graz
• Discrete Mappings, Yaron Lipman, Weizmann Institute
• Discrete Conformal Geometry, Keenan Crane, Carnegie
Mellon University
• Optimal Transportation on Discrete Domains,
Justin Solomon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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