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I edit a magazine for High School students, and would very much like to get hold of a large image of one of the large sheets of paper with Maryam Mirzakhani's mathematical drawings on for the cover of the magazine (the sheets of paper like those that appear in, for example, Quanta). I imagine that these could be of considerable historical interest. Does anyone know if any of them have been preserved?

I acknowledge that this is not a standard question for MO - if people have a better suggestion of where it should be posted, I'd be grateful to hear.

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    $\begingroup$ Prof. Alex Wright has a high-resolution image on his web site --- it only shows a small portion of a larger sheet, but you might want to ask if the full image is available. $\endgroup$
    – Carlo Beenakker
    Commented Aug 30, 2019 at 10:29
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    $\begingroup$ (Not related to the question.) Out of curiosity, I had a look at the latest issue, and I’m puzzled: how are the students supposed to show the false statement that “the equation $15x^2+y^2=4n$ has positive integer solutions for any integer $n\ge2$”? $\endgroup$
    – Emil Jeřábek
    Commented Aug 30, 2019 at 10:38
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    $\begingroup$ Presumably you could ask her husband: theory.stanford.edu/~jvondrak $\endgroup$
    – Neil Strickland
    Commented Aug 30, 2019 at 12:45
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    $\begingroup$ @EmilJeřábek: That's embarrassing. This turns out to have been a typesetting error. The original asked students to show that $15x^2+y^2=4^n$ has a positive integer solution. $\endgroup$
    – Anthony Quas
    Commented Aug 30, 2019 at 16:37
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    $\begingroup$ Perhaps of interest: you can see her "doodling" in this youtube video (at 2:28). $\endgroup$
    – Jim
    Commented Aug 30, 2019 at 18:59

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