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Farideh Firoozbakht (Persian: فریده فیروزبخت; 18 March 1962 – 24 December 2019) was an Iranian mathematician. She stated Firoozbakht's conjecture on the distribution of prime numbers in 1982. She studied pharmacology and later mathematics at the University of Isfahan and taught mathematics at Iranian universities including the University of Isfahan.

References

1. Ribenboim, Paulo (2004). The Little Book of Bigger Primes Second Edition. Springer-Verlag. p. 185.
2. Rivera, Carlos. "Conjecture 30. The Firoozbakht Conjecture". Retrieved 22 August 2012.
3. "The Puzzlers". Retrieved 5 February 2020.

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Mathematicians	Before 20th Century Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani Jamshid al-Kashi (al-Kashi's theorem) Omar Khayyam (Khayyam-Pascal's triangle, Khayyam-Saccheri quadrilateral, Khayyam's Solution of Cubic Equations) Al-Mahani Muhammad Baqir Yazdi Nizam al-Din al-Nisapuri Al-Nayrizi Kushyar Gilani Ayn al-Quzat Hamadani Al-Isfahani Al-Isfizari Al-Khwarizmi (Al-jabr) Najm al-Din al-Qazwini al-Katibi Nasir al-Din al-Tusi Al-Biruni Modern Maryam Mirzakhani Caucher Birkar Sara Zahedi Farideh Firoozbakht (Firoozbakht's conjecture) S. L. Hakimi (Havel–Hakimi algorithm) Siamak Yassemi Freydoon Shahidi (Langlands–Shahidi method) Hamid Naderi Yeganeh Esmail Babolian Ramin Takloo-Bighash Lotfi A. Zadeh (Fuzzy mathematics, Fuzzy set, Fuzzy logic) Ebadollah S. Mahmoodian Reza Sarhangi (The Bridges Organization) Siavash Shahshahani Gholamhossein Mosaheb Amin Shokrollahi Reza Sadeghi Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi Mohsen Hashtroodi Hossein Zakeri Amir Ali Ahmadi
Prize Recipients	Fields Medal Maryam Mirzakhani (2014) Caucher Birkar (2018) EMS Prize Sara Zahedi (2016) Satter Prize Maryam Mirzakhani (2013)
Organizations	Iranian Mathematical Society
Institutions	Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences

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