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A math whiz as a young man, he later blazed trails, both with his theoretical advances and his advocacy for minority students.

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It started almost by accident. At my startup Dwelly, I constantly push the limits of what AI tools can actually do. One day I just typed into a chat: “Can you prove P ≠ NP?”—referring to the problem ...