Article about 17 year-old math talent

[jasonRF]

I thought this was an interesting article that some of you may enjoy. It begins with:

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah-cairo-solved-a-major-math-mystery-20250801/

 

[fresh_42]

Here is her paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06137#