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German Teen Solves Mathematical Riddle First Proposed by Sir Isaac Newton
- rsanchez1 14y agoYes thanks, we heard it the first 10 times.
- ColinWright 14y agoThere's a follow-up here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4034487 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4034487 This to accompany some previous submissions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4028756 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4028756 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4029599 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4029599 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4029676 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4029676 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4031332 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4031332 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4031625 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4031625 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4034225 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4034225 Consensus seems to be that he's found a closed-form solution of a 2D projectile with friction proportional to the square of the velocity: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/u7551/teen_solves_newtons_300yearold_riddle_an/c4sxd91 http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/u7551/teen_solves... http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/150242/teenager-solves-newton-dynamics-problem-where-is-the-paper http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/150242/teenager-solv...
- leephillips 14y ago"he's found a closed-form solution of a 2D projectile with friction proportional to the square of the velocity" Your phrase there contains more actual information than all of the news articles linked from HN so far. And your links provide most of the details that I was curious about. This last dupe is particularly egregious. The linked article is simple plagiarism, and the illiterate author's attempt to rearrange some sentences produce some choice gibberish.