Shouryya ray biography channels

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.

Shouryya ray biography channels

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