16 year old solves centuries old math problem (player, photobucket, transfer)
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It's on FOX News and I'm having trouble linking to it on my phone right now. He's from India and lives in Germany. It's problem proposed by Sir Issiac Newton involving the rate of an object falling with not only gravity, but also air resistance factored in. The applications for solving this problem includes more accurate weapons.
Smart kid. Interesting about the naive thing, no set way do solve the problem, no experience with failure. All very cool. Maybe we could get him to transfer over here.
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In the future if you do not want to discuss Science of Technology LURK, LEAVE or SUFFER the consequences.
IIRC, there was a story from Germany with a similar feel about a year or two ago, where a grandiose claim was made about a smart kid, it was picked up by the papers, and the kid had done nothing out of the ordinary.
The UPI story makes it appear that he has "discovered" something already well known to every basketball player and artillery and ballistics student. If there is something more to it, perhaps someone could enlighten us?
This is what everything is abuzz about. What he did has been understood since 1860, its just lost in translation by the news media and sensationalized since a 16 year old kid put it on paper by some news media after winning second place in a science contest.
Smart kid, but oopsie by the media.
At least we dont have neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light. That was a fun thread.
This is what everything is abuzz about. What he did has been understood since 1860, its just lost in translation by the news media and sensationalized since a 16 year old kid put it on paper by some news media after winning second place in a science contest.
Smart kid, but oopsie by the media.
At least we dont have neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light. That was a fun thread.
Could you give us more information about this? How is it that the solution has been known since 1860? And did the boy's solution of it match the process and solution that was done in 1860, or did he come up with a novel approach?
Bless the moderators for finally moving this topic to science! Now we can learn more about the details of the topic.
I have worked this problem for longer then I want to admit. Great on this young man.
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