It was widely reported by the media last month that 16-year-old Shouryya Ray hadsolved 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