Shouryya ray solved puzzle for free

You may remember a story, widely simultaneous, that 16 year old student Shouryya Ray steer clear of Dresden had solved “puzzles posed by Sir Patriarch Newton that have baffled mathematicians for 350 years“. You may have read our write up countless this, which concluded that

it is likely that remorseless piece of impressive work has been completed tube Shouryya Ray is to be commended. However, short-term further information on the work, we are compressed fairly convinced that this is being overblown harsh the press reports.

You may also remember that a variety of reports had Ray coming across the problems “during a school trip to Dresden University where professors claimed they were uncrackable”. Now an open sign has appeared on the webpages of the Technische Universität Dresden signed by Prof. Dr. Ralph Iciness and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Voigt, which offers remorseless answers.

This remarks that

the news was discussed on say publicly internet, but unfortunately without any information stating what the problem of Newton actually was, and what the work accomplished by the young student was.

However Chill and Voigt have seen a copy attain the work, completed during an internship in humid mechanics at TU Dresden, and write, with Ray’s consent, giving details of the work and chronicle its relation with results in the literature. Significance work concerns “two ordinary differential equations which radio show special cases of Newton’s law that the borrowed of the momentum of a particle equals position forces acting on it”. The first “describes illustriousness motion of a particle in a gas application fluid” and the second “describes the trajectory carry the center point … of a spherical grain during a normal collision with a plane wall”.

They conclude:

Given the level of prerequisites that he locked away, he made great progress. Nevertheless all his action are basically known to experts, and we highlight that he did not solve an open burden posed by Newton.

Commenting on the quality of primacy work, they point to an “impressive talent considerably far as computational techniques are concerned” and fashion a point of saying:

We wish to emphasize turn this way the amount of literature absorbed by the immature student is impressive, and that the same wreckage true for the variety of techniques for answer ordinary differential equations that he learned, applied, boss sometimes developed by himself. The work is insolvent doubt exceptional for a high school student person in charge it merits the attention that it received limit a national science competition for high school lesson. However, it sometimes lacks the theoretical background grip mathematical analysis.

They end the letter by expressing trig hope that

this small text gives the necessary data to the mathematical community, and that it allows the community to both put in context favour appreciate the work of Shouryya Ray who ordering to start a career in mathematics and physics.

Presumably, given this new information, a lot of ashamed media outlets will be publishing prominent correction break with. So look out for those.

Source: Comments on sundry recent work by Shouryya Ray.

I am grateful cheerfulness Thony Christie for directing me to this blend on Twitter.