Years After the Early Death of a Math Genius, Her Ideas Gain New Life
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Mathematicians have extended the late Maryam Mirzakhani's pioneering work on hyperbolic surfaces, proving that most have optimal connectivity. The research by Nalini Anantharaman and Laura Monk shows that randomly selected hyperbolic surfaces are likely to have the maximum possible spectral gap of 1/4, illuminating the properties of these complex geometric shapes.
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