{"id":101508,"date":"2026-09-07T04:26:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T04:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/the-92-year-old-mathematician-and-the-teenage-apprentice\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T04:26:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T04:26:59","slug":"the-92-year-old-mathematician-and-the-teenage-apprentice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/the-92-year-old-mathematician-and-the-teenage-apprentice\/","title":{"rendered":"The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor \u2014 a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/09\/06\/science\/92-year-old-mathematician-apprentice.html\">NYT > Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor \u2014 a girl who knew little but wanted to learn. NYT > Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[30564,1081,15766,13658],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}