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Have you ever seen a young genius(天才)who wrote down her MIT dream at the age of 14 and solved world-famous Maths problems with AI at 24? Wondering what makes her journey so 1?
Hong Letong, a post-00s from Guangzhou, loved Maths when she was a kid. She 2 an Olympic Maths training group in junior high. 3 she was only 14, she wrote “MIT” on her notebook—this brave dream would push her forward.
During high school, she was one of just four girls on Guangdong's top Maths team, and her outstanding performance(表现)in the team then helped her 4 the Hua Luogeng Cup. At the age of 18, she entered MIT and broke records—finishing two degrees in three years with a perfect score of 4.9. She even got top prizes like the Morgan Prize, showing that her idea is true: You have to push yourself hard to stand out.
In 2022, she studied neuroscience(神经科学)at Oxford. Later, she 5 studying for two PhD programmes at Stanford. But she 6 gave up all to start her company Axiom Maths in 2024, aiming to build an AI that doesn't just “guess” Maths answers, but gives solutions that can be checked to be true. “Maths is the best way to 7 smart AI, ” she told a news group.
In just four amazing months, her team's AI 8 two Erdös problems—super-hard Maths questions that troubled experts(专家)for 30 and 45 years!
Hong's story is full of good ideas. “Loving Maths is like seeing something wonderful,” she writes on her social media. Your age, your birthplace, or 9 things usually are—none of these can 10 you if you love what you do.
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