At 17, She Solved a Major Math Mystery

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Math and Science News from Quanta Magazine View this email in your browser GEOMETRY | ALL TOPICS   At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery By KEVIN HARTNETT Hannah Cairo found the homeschooling life confining. Then she petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, and at 17 she ended up solving a 40-year-old mystery. Read the article MEMORY   What Can a Cell Remember? By CLAIRE L. EVANS A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences. Read the article Q&A   Why the Key to a Mathematical Life is Collaboration By RACHEL CROWELL Fan Chung, who has an Erdős number of 1, discusses the importance of connection — both human and mathematical. Read the article THE QUANTA PODCAST   When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field Podcast hosted by SAMIR PATEL With JAMES PAVLUS Researchers in "natural language processing" tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer. Listen (Apple) | Listen (Spotify) Read the story Follow Quanta Unsubscribe | About Quanta | My Bookmarks Privacy Policy | Terms | Contact Us   Copyright © 2025 Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent division of the Simons Foundation Simons Foundation 160 5th Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY 10010