A brilliant teen who honed her skills during the COVID-19 pandemic has solved one of math's most frustrating problems [that's a pretty giant claim, where are you seeing that?] — and in doing so, become a rising star. As Quanta magazine reports, fledgling mathematician Hannah Cairo was just 17 when she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a decades-old suggestion dealing with waves on surfaces that nobody had ever successfully countered before her. The homeschooled math whiz mastered calculus at 11, taught herself from grad school-level textbooks, and worked remotely with professors who her parents hired as tutors, the magazine reports. When COVID […]

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