Teen Prodigy Hannah Cairo Solves 40-Year-Old Math Mystery
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Summary
Hannah Cairo, a 17-year-old homeschooled student, solved a 40-year-old mathematical mystery by disproving a long-standing conjecture. Her achievement, which involved studying functions, was published in a paper that stunned the math community. Despite her young age, she gained access to a graduate class at Berkeley, where she made her groundbreaking discovery.
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· 4 pulledIt’s not that anyone ever said sophisticated math problems can’t be solved by teenagers who haven’t finished high school. But the odds of such a result would have seemed long.
Yet a paper posted on February 10 left the math world by turns stunned, delighted and ready to welcome a bold new talent into its midst.
She had solved a 40-year-old mystery about how functions behave.
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.
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