The math world just got a new genius—a prodigy who announced himself by affixing his name to his signature feat of numerical prowess. But he won’t be winning any awards—he died more than 1,000 years ago in the Maya empire that once flourished in Mesoamerica.We’ve long known that the Maya did math. Their calendars, for instance, encode a sophisticated awareness of astronomical cycles that demands advanced calculations. But like so much Indigenous knowledge that was destroyed or discarded during the European conquest of the Americas, the names of these ancient mathematicians were thought to be lost to history, unlike those…