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At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery

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Re: At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery

#11

What is the general basis for skipping college and getting admission directly in a Ph.D. program? What does one have to generally do to qualify?

For context, Stephen Wolfram dropped out of Eton to start at Oxford, then was admitted to Caltech's physics PhD before finishing his Oxford BA, receiving his doctorate at the age of 21.

(He was publishing papers in high school.)

Re: At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery

#13

What is the general basis for skipping college and getting admission directly in a Ph.D. program? What does one have to generally do to qualify?

be actually gifted

this is what gifted looks like, not legions of students who are told they are "gifted" but are just pretty smart

Re: At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery

#17

I hope she doesn't burn out and move into the woods like Grothendieck, Kaczynski,

I have yet to move into the woods but, given my current levels of burnout, I think such a proposition is highly underrated. What's wrong with moving into the woods?

Wait, if everyone moves into the woods there will be no more woods that offer seclusion. Yeah moving into the woods is awful! I hope she doesn't burn out!

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> Only the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University were willing to welcome her straight into a doctoral program. She’ll start at Maryland in the fall. When she finishes, it will be her first degree.

Jeez... what a damning indictment of today's Universities.

She could just use her publication as a dissertation and be done with it!

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post #7

A less click-baity headline might be "17 year old Hannah Cairo has solved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture"

probably add "in the negative", to that.

"17 year old Hannah Cairo has disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture"

Re: At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery

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> Only the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University were willing to welcome her straight into a doctoral program. She’ll start at Maryland in the fall. When she finishes, it will be her first degree. Jeez... what a damning indictment of today's Universities. She could just use her publication as a dissertation and be done with it!

Normally you have a master of science as well. And for that you require a bachelors. So to do it directly you need to do it all at once?
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