A math problem stumped experts for fifty years. This grad student from Maine solved it in days

What a wholesome person.

When I ask her about her goals, Piccirillo says one of her priorities is to help grow and broaden the mathematics community. “There certainly are many young women, people of color, non-heterosexual, or non-gender binary people who feel put at an arm’s length by the institution of mathematics,” she says. “It’s really important to me to help mitigate that in any small ways I can.” One important way to do that, she continues, is to help shatter the myth of the math prodigy.

I wasn't expecting to feel good after reading a story about a math problem this morning, but I'm glad I decided to. Thanks!