หนุ่มน้อยนี้ให้สัมภาษณ์ว่า “…explained to us that the problems had no solutions, I thought to myself, ‘well, there’s no harm in trying.’”
[B]A GERMAN 16-year-old has become the first person to solve a mathematical problem posed by Sir Isaac Newton more than 300 years ago.
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Shouryya Ray worked out how to calculate exactly the path of a projectile under gravity and subject to air resistance, [I]The (London) Sunday Times[/I] reported.
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The Indian-born teen said he solved the problem that had stumped mathematicians for centuries while working on a school project.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Mr Ray won a research award for his efforts and has been labeled a genius by the German media, but he put it down to “curiosity and schoolboy naivety”.
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“When it was explained to us that the problems had no solutions, I thought to myself, ‘well, there’s no harm in trying,’” he said.
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Mr Ray’s family moved to Germany when he was 12 after his engineer father got a job at a technical college. He said his father instilled in him a “hunger for mathematics” and taught him calculus at the age of six. [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Mr Ray’s father, Subhashis, said his son’s mathematical prowess quickly outstripped his own considerable knowledge.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]“He never discussed his project with me before it was finished and the mathematics he used are far beyond my reach,” he said.
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Despite not speaking a word of German when he arrived, Mr Ray will this week sit Germany’s high school leaving exams, two years ahead of his peers.
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Newton posed the problem, relating to the movement of projectiles through the air, in the 17th century. Mathematicians had only been able to offer partial solutions until now. [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]If that wasn’t enough of an achievement, Mr Ray has also solved a second problem, dealing with the collision of a body with a wall, that was posed in the 19th century. [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Both problems Mr Ray resolved are from the field of dynamics and his solutions are expected to contribute to greater precision in areas such as ballistics.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]
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