"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."
The math world was taken aback when Cairo announced her counterexample to the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture — both because it settled a major open problem, and because Cairo was still in high school at the time. Valerie Plesch for 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."
🌍 https://tinyurl.com/bdfha3h4
📝 https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06137
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