I like crossing the imaginary boundaries people set up between different fields—it's very refreshing. There are lots of tools, and you don't know which one would work. It's about being optimistic and trying to connect things.

— Maryam Mirzakhani, A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces (2014)

Source: https://www.quantamagazine.org/maryam-mirzakhani-is-first-woman-fields-medalist-20140812

From a 2014 Quanta Magazine profile.

Topics: creativity, mathematics