Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Real Life: Challenge Accepted

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.

"When it was explained to us that the problems had no solutions, I thought to myself, 'well, there's no harm in trying.'"

Mr Ray (the 16 year old) 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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