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From: Bill Wolf12/4/2025 6:43:49 AM
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The Math Legend Who Just Left Academia—for an AI Startup Run by a 24-Year-Old
Ken Ono had an epiphany. Now the professor is moving to Silicon Valley to chase mathematical superintelligence.

By Ben Cohen

Dec. 4, 2025 5:30 am ET

Ken Ono’s career as one of the world’s most prominent mathematicians has taken him to places that he never could have fathomed.

The renowned University of Virginia professor regularly ventures far beyond campus, bringing his formulas everywhere from Hollywood to the Olympics. He’s the only number theorist who has ever been the star of a beer commercial. And for his next act, this renaissance man of math is doing something improbable even by his standards.

He’s leaving his tenured job to work for a 24-year-old.

wsj.com
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