Farideh Firoozbakht

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.[1][2] She studied pharmacology and later mathematics at the University of Isfahan and taught mathematics at Iranian universities including the University of Isfahan.[3]

  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.