"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/
📝 https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06137

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At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine

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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A counterexample to the Mizohata-Takeuchi Conjecture - OARS

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A 17-year-old teen refutes a mathematical conjecture proposed 40 years ago

Hannah Cairo has solved the so-called Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a problem in harmonic analysis closely linked to other central results in the field. This fall, she will begin her doctoral studies at the University of Maryland

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A 17-year-old teen refutes a mathematical conjecture proposed 40 years ago

Hannah Cairo has solved the so-called Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a problem in harmonic analysis closely linked to other central results in the field. This fall, she will begin her doctoral studies at the University of Maryland

EL PAÍS English