A 92-Year-Old Mathematician and a Teenage Apprentice Crack a Decades-Old Problem
The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice
A 92-year-old mathematician and a teenage apprentice have solved a problem that stumped experts for decades. Their unlikely collaboration, spanning generations, led to a breakthrough in number theory. The pair's work, published in a leading journal, demonstrates the power of cross-generational teamwork and fresh perspectives.
I never thought I'd be working with a teenager, but she asked the right questions and saw things I'd missed for years.
- ziyao_w
Beautiful article. Reading this after having mixed feeling and honestly a bit depressed about the Navier-Stokes situation feels almost like therapy, and I had to try really hard to hold back tears.
The Riverside Park has always been beautiful but particularly this time of year. Maybe I should pay a visit again, sitting on a bench thinking thoughts.
- qmr
Beautiful article.
https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/scienc...
- oveja
Very lovely story. As noted in the article I couldn't help but feel it was a mirror to the story of Ramanujan.