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Iraqi Teen Solves 300-Year-Old Math Puzzle in Four Months
FOXNews.com ^ | Friday, May 29, 2009 | FOX NEWS

Posted on 05/29/2009 4:32:23 AM PDT by metmom

An Iraqi-born 16-year-old reportedly has cracked a math puzzle that has gone unsolved for over 300 years.

Mohamed Altoumaimi, who immigrated to Sweden six years ago, took only four months to find a formula that explains a sequence of calculations known as the Bernoulli numbers, a code that had stumped some of the best experts in the field, Agence France-Presse reported.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: bernoulli; math; science; stringtheory
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21 posted on 05/29/2009 10:43:52 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (AGWT is very robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level.)
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