When James Maynard was three, a health assessor told his mother that he’d have problems in school. “I was definitely one of those annoying kids who would say ‘Why? Why? Why?’ all the time,” he said. Now he’s one of the world’s leading number theorists answering some of the toughest questions about prime numbers. https://www.quantamagazine.org/james-maynard-solves-the-hardest-easy-math-problems-20200701/ | Quanta Magazine