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Indian boy solves 350-year Newton math
puzzle
Saturday May 26, 2012 06:45:38 PM,
IANS
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London: A 16-year-old
Indian origin schoolboy in Germany has managed to crack puzzles
that baffled the world of maths for more than 350 years, it was
reported here Saturday.
Shouryya Ray, from Dresden, has been hailed a genius after working
out the problems set by Sir Isaac Newton.
Ray solved two fundamental particle dynamics theories which
physicists have previously been able to calculate only by using
powerful computers, Daily Mail reported.
His solutions mean that scientists can now calculate the flight
path of a thrown ball and then predict how it will hit and bounce
off a wall.
Ray only came across the problems during a school trip to Dresden
University where professors claimed they were uncrackable, the
newspaper said.
"I just asked myself, 'Why not?'," explained Ray.
"I didn't believe there couldn't be a solution," he added.
Ray began solving complicated equations as a six-year-old but says
he's no genius.
After arriving from Kolkata four years ago without knowing any
German, Shouryya is now fluent in the language.
His intelligence was quickly noted in class and he was pushed up
two years in school - he is currently sitting his exams early, the
Mail said.
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