Iraq-born teen cracks maths puzzle

Iraq-born teen cracks maths puzzle

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 Al-Tamimi 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.

Al-Tamimi, 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," Al-Tamimi 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, Al-Tamimi 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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[Mark6770]

ha'? Interesting!.... I've already use bernoulli numbers in my research in step function....

[WilfriedAnonymo]

@fadyb56 Godwin's law?

[TellyEntertainment]

hmm if a white man had solved the Bernoulli maths puzzle then it would be publicised world wide, but cos its iraqi u wont even see it in the newspaper!

[fadyb56]

DAH!!

[satoofi93]

What's wrong with zionism? don't you know that eveything around you (including YouTube) is zionist?

[fadyb56]

at least hitler killed for purpose and if there was not war and if the enlish agreed to join there would have been a great empire today just like the roman empire

not a country that killed its own people for excuses and decieve them and manipulate them

and call all that democracy

just because i can say fuck obama and no one touches me that mean its fredom or i can believe in what i want an elect the face that rules me and it would not matter who it is cuz zionists r the one after everything

[fadyb56]

what is it with u and with life why do u value it besides its not 11 mil estimated 60mil ww2 of two sides or 6 mil jews and 1 mil gays and handicap and retarded he had a vision of an empire that was unifing europe into a great nation besides what r the israelis r doing today, r not they killing in arbas today and invading their country and americans to iraq over2.5 mil dead and 5 mil fleed the country 911 was an inside job is that a nation u r proud of or r u the media believer?

[satoofi93]

Indeed, the person who killed over 11 million people is great?

[fadyb56]

am sorry that u r so stupid

i pity u

and i am HITLER LOVER

a great man for a great purpose

[satoofi93]

Go back where ever you came from, hitler lover.