At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery. “The math world was taken aback when Cairo announced her counterexample to the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture.”
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That photo of her in front of the projector showing her work, in pink and purple ink and adorned with doodles. 🙌 So good!
It's reassuring we haven't destroyed the next generation's imagination with cell phones. I know it is a silly thing to think, but it was literally my first thought after finishing this.
So fantastically awesome for her, and I’m glad she’s in a position to make friends now.
Incredible work, and I know she's a teenager, so it's partly just baked-in, but I love how blasé she is about all of it.
"Oh, I just upended harmonic analysis, as one does"
Also, how absurd for schools to have denied her enrollment in a graduate program based on her lack of a college degree.
A very "but a dog can't play basketball" vibe if ever there was one.
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