Maryan Mirzakhani y las mates visuales

There are some numbers in my coffee is a series that aims to make the difficult easy. Approach complex mathematical concepts in a simple and didactic way with multiple examples, illustrations and language suitable and understandable to all audiences.

In this fourth book, Maryan Mirzakhani and visual maths , Francisco Salas Molina deals with the fascinating life and work of the Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, who managed to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious mathematical prize, thus becoming the first Iranian and the first woman to receive this award. Motivo y pretexto perfecto para hacer una visita al reduido compendio de feminas que han logrado brillar con luz propia, dentro de un entorno tan masculino como han sido las matemáticas.

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FRANCISCO SALAS MOLINA es Doctor en Ingeniería por la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia y el Instituto de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial dependiente del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Ingeniero de Organización Industrial e Ingeniero Técnico en Electrónica Industrial por la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia y Máster en Creación de Empresas de Base Tecnológica por la Universidad de Valencia.

He is currently a professor in the Business Management Department of the Faculty of Economics of the Universitat de València. He develops his research in the confluence of Economics, Operational Research and Computer Science. His work on multi-criteria decision theory and quantitative methods for finance has been published in prestigious research journals such as the International Journal of Forecasting, Computers and Operations Research or Annals of Operations Research.

In 2008, he received the First Prize of the Fundación Ruralcaja for the Best Business Article organized by the Escuela de Negocios Fundesem of Alicante. In 2019, his doctoral thesis received the Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Multicriteria Decision awarded by the Multicriterio Decision Group of the Sociedad Española de Estadística e Investigación Operativa.