Monday, May 28, 2012

Shouryya Ray Creates History by Cracking 350-Year-Old Maths Puzzles Set by Sir Isaac Newton

A 16-year-old Kolkata boy Shouryya Ray, who arrived Germany 4 years ago, surprised the world by solving two fundamental particle dynamics theories which physicists could calculate only by using powerful computers. Hundreds and thousands of geniuses have already tried their hands and brains on it and Shouryya Ray is the first ever person to have succeeded with flying colors. His solutions will now enable scientists to calculate the flight path of a thrown ball and how it will exactly hit and bounce off a wall for which they had been waiting for more than 350 years.

Shouryya Ray’s journey of solving the maths puzzles started when he heard that the 350 years old puzzle was unsolvable from professors of Dresden University during a school trip. His reaction was “Why not?” “I didn’t believe there couldn’t be a solution” he added and the next what he did, all at the age 16, is history.

He is the son of an engineer who discovered his son’s exceptional intellect after testing his brain with complicated arithmetic problems.


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