![Adela (YiYu) Zhang ’18, left, and Jakin Ng ’25 inside The Alchemist sculpture](/files/images/202206/MIT-Spectrum-Primes-SL.jpg)
Spotlight: Jun 5, 2022
MIT PRIMES mentors high schoolers in math research. For rising MIT sophomore Jakin Ng, it was “a taste of what professional mathematicians do — instead of just learning about results other people have already achieved, actually creating new knowledge.”