Kim Ung-Yong became famous in the 1960s as a child prodigy, but the truth about his later life is more difficult to verify.

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At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...

Hannah Cairo shook the math world when she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a 40-year-old unsolved math problem, when she was only 17. Well ahead of her peers in math, Cairo applied to ...

He avoided fame, lived in isolation, and ignored modern math — but still changed it forever. His life reads like fiction, but his genius was very real. Secret Service finds 17 'skimming' devices in ...