Shouryya ray biography for kids
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It was widely reported by the media last month that 16-year-old Shouryya Ray had solved a problem first posed by Sir Isaac Newton over 350 years ago that has baffled mathematicians ever since.
The Indian-born student, who lives in eastern Germany and was conducting an internship at Technische Universität Dresden, was hailed as a genius for working out two fundamental particle dynamics equations that previously could only be approximated using computers with partial solutions. Ray’s solutions allegedly allowed for exact calculation of a projectile’s trajectory under gravity and subject to air resistance. In layman’s terms, an object’s flight path could now be calculated and predictions made about how the item would collide with and ricochet off a barrier.
As it turns out, Ray did not solve Newton’s 300-year-old puzzle -- because the problem never actually existed.
“The misunderstanding starts here already — Newton did not ‘pose a problem,’” Jürgen Voigt, a math professor
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Shouryya Ray, a 16-year-old German student, has cracked a puzzle that has stumped mathematicians since Sir Isaac Newton first posed the problem more than 350 years ago.
Ray has won a research award and has been hailed as a genius for working out two fundamental particle dynamics equations that physicists have previously only been able to approximate bygd using computers with partial solutions. The teen's solutions allow exact calculations of a trajectory under gravity and subject to air resistance. In other words, an item's flight path can be calculated and predictions can be made about how the object will hit and bounce off a barrier. The two questions were first posed in the 17th and 19th centuries.
UPDATE: A later memo by Jürgen Voigt, a math professor at Technische Universität tysk stad, contends that while Ray's methods are "exceptional and remarkable for a high school student," the teen did not actually provide a solution to a 350-year-old riddle -- because Newton never •
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16 year old Shouryya Ray, an Indian-born German student has solved a 350 year old puzzle, left by Newton.
Shouryya Ray worked out how to calculate exactly the path of a projectile under gravity and subject to air resistance, The (London) Sunday Times reported.
The Indian-born teen said he solved the problem that had stumped mathematicians for centuries while working on a school project.
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".
"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.
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.
Mr Ray's father, Subhashis, said his son's mathemati