Posted on 05/30/2009 9:10:45 AM PDT by Flavius
A 16-year-old Iraqi immigrant living in Sweden has cracked a maths puzzle that has stumped experts for more than 300 years, Swedish media reported Thursday.
In just four months, Mohamed Altoumaimi has found a formula to explain and simplify the so-called Bernoulli numbers, a sequence of calculations named after the 17th century Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli, the Dagens Nyheter daily said.
Altoumaimi, who came to Sweden six years ago, said teachers at his high school in Falun, central Sweden were not convinced about his work at first.
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Misreport. The problem was cracked a couple of years ago and the solution was already known.
Finally an Arab candidate for the Noble prize!
Uh, ok . . . got it.
If we hadn’t removed Saddam, he would be working on nukes in Iraq.
Darn, and I’ve been working so hard trying to solve that one myself...
Oh, posh! That’s a piece of cake!
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A bernoulli is a pastry, right?
So we finally understand how those things can fly. Oh, wait, different Bernoulli.
Does he support the Islamic takeover of Europe?
Serious response: This is awesome that a kid, an Iraqi immigrant, figured this out when no one else could for over 300 years.
Sarcastic remark: they should see if he can help to figure out how to save Saab.
Two Husseins. One gone, another to go.
Equally serious response: It really isn't all that hard when you already have the answer.
I thought some Marxist janitor at MIT cracked it years ago?
No, it is a ancient Italian pasta.
In all seriousness : After their conversion to Islam , the arabs never had an original thought or idea.
Don’t tell Mohamed Altourmaimi, you will break his heart!
Wow, and I just passed pre-calculus. Smart kid.
Even if he had solved it independently, there is no Nobel Prize in mathematics. The “joke” is that Nobel’s wife had an affair with a mathematician. (Actually, Nobel was a bachelor and his girlfriend was a German countess who induced him to set up the prize.)
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