"Harvard Thinks It’s Found the Next Einstein — and She’s 23"
August 29, 2017
Big Al's are some sizable shoes to fill, but it sounds like this young woman has a decent chance.
Pasterski had first flown a plane at age 9, an experience she casually relayed to a teacher at her public high school, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora. The teacher replied: “That’s nice, but what have you done lately?”
“That’s become my mantra ever since,” Pasterski told the Chicago Tribune in a 2016 interview. “That’s nice, but what have you done lately?”