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]