STOCKHOLM (AFP) – 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 on 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."When I first showed it to my teachers, none of them thought the formula I had written down really worked," Altoumaimi told the Falu Kuriren newspaper. He then got in touch with professors at Uppsala University, one of Sweden's top institutions, to ask them to check his work. After going through his notebooks, the professors found his work was indeed correct and offered him a place in Uppsala.
But for now, Altoumaimi is focusing on his school studies and plans to take summer classes in advanced mathematics and physics this year."I wanted to be a researcher in physics or mathematics; I really like those subjects. But I have to improve in English and social sciences," he told the Falu Kuriren.
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Saturday, May 30, 2009
Rashard Lewis' Washington State house for sale
In case any of you have a few million that's burning a hole in your jean jacket pocket, I was just informed that ex-Sonic and current Orlando Magic forward Rashard Lewis(notes) is still looking to sell his elegant lakefront home in Washington State for a cool $4.9 million. Whoa whoa whoa! Don't everyone shout out bids at once! I'm sure 'Shard owns multiple estates we can all buy to build tiny green and red hotels on. How else do you explain the fact that he drives a tiny top hat into work everyday? The guy is made of money, people. Seriously. For $4,994,876 you get some 8,000-square-feet, five bedrooms, five and a half bathrooms, a swimming pool (which, knowing 'Shard's game, has a deep end — RIM SHOT!), an open gourmet kitchen/family room, a lake level game room, a wet bar, a movie theater (complete with funny little basketball light fixtures) and a sun room. Oh, there's also a dock with two slips and two jet-ski lifts, Kenny Powers. It's really just "a casual elegant lifestyle throughout."
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