The Mathematician Who Found the Infinite

In 2014, Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to win the Fields Medal, mathematics' highest honor. Her work explored hyperbolic surfaces — shapes so complex that their geometry curves away from itself in every direction. She once described her process as walking through a vast, dark forest. "You think you know the territory," she said, "but then you discover another clearing, and another beyond that, and you realize the forest has no edge."…