You Little Smart Muthafukka!!!

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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.

Iraq-born teen cracks maths puzzle - Yahoo! News

 

[Duke]

Cool. Future groundbreaking scientist in the works.

Altoumaimi. I'll remember that name.

 

[ArtsyGirl]

Duke you have trouble remembering your own name.

Anyway, can't wait to see 'Good Mohamed Hunting'

 

[masta247]

Everybody say that he did something big but nobody said yet what it actually is. I don't recall any problem with Bernoulli numbers. There were various formulas to count them. Someone should publish his notes. I hate that about the media. They say "someone did something big blabla" without getting into any details.

 

[arthurrrr]

he should try to solve
7 unproven theories
u solve one
n u get million dollers

 

[Jokerman]

While correct, his formula was something already known by mathematicians. So he might have discovered it independently or else he saw it somewhere. But he wasn't the first to discover it and crack something that has stumped experts for 300 years. Biatch.

 

[masta247]

So it's just what I thought there. He did nothing important, something that everyone could come up with. Stupid media.
Somebody should discover a solution to the 2^n to n^2 problem or something. That would solve like hundreds of problems out there.

 

[roaches]

Yeah, I'd like to see anyone who's even *heard* of this site manage to do that independently as a 16-year old. Jeez.

 

[masta247]

Yeah, I'd like to see anyone who's even *heard* of this site manage to do that independently as a 16-year old. Jeez.

I suspect that a lot of people could do it.
I study with IT/math nerds and at least some of them definately did harder stuff when they were 16.

 

[Jokerman]

I'd like to see anyone who's even *heard* of this site manage to do that independently as a 16-year old.

I discovered it while still in my mother's womb.

 

[Lil KaMiKaZe]

I suspect that a lot of people could do it.
I study with IT/math nerds and at least some of them definately did harder stuff when they were 16.

Jalousy?:nuts:

 

[masta247]

Jalousy?:nuts:

yes I'm so jealous. I should be on teh tv!
On a serious note my previous message looked a bit like that lol

 

[hizzle?]

I discovered it while still in my mother's womb.

I AM the Bernoulli sequence. Me > You. ush:

 

[Get In The Van I Have Candy]

The fucker ain't getting pussy any time soon. And I am talking about Jokerman.