Hannah Cairo found herself stuck on a problem that wouldn’t leave her mind. It wasn’t a regular homework assignment—it was a decades-old mathematical puzzle believed to be true by leading experts in ...

When she was just 17 years old, Hannah Cairo disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, breaking a four-decade-old mathematical assumption ...

Mathematics has its share of prodigies, but rarely does someone so young alter the shape of the field before even earning their first degree. At 17, Hannah Cairo, a homeschooled teenager, has ...