The Indians are great at mathematics and science.

If someone else doesn't find this absolutely hilarious, I live in a scary world.



High five?

The Indians are great at mathematics and science.

What about Indian girls?

(I bet it's not going to take some of our ATS geniuses 350 years to get that question.)

Absolutely incredible story though - just incredible. I admit I don't understand and of it - but then again I'm not Indian or male. (Ok ok I'll let it go).

Thanks for the thread - interesting stuff that.

peace

I would rather focus on the problem he solved rather than debating who is better than who at mathematics.

The schoolboy, from Dresden, Germany, solved two fundamental particle dynamics theories which physicists have previously been able to calculate only by using powerful computers.
Boy wonder: Shouryya Ray has been hailed a genius after working out the problems set by Sir Isaac Newton

His solutions mean that scientists can now calculate the flight path of a thrown ball and then predict how it will hit and bounce off a wall.

I don't understand exactly how particle physics relates to the trajectory of a thrown ball... or how particle physics even relates to the problem set by Newton. Can anyone link me to the actual problem as written by Newton? I am very interested to find out more about this...

I think he has probably solved Newtons 'Three body Problem' - but that is the crap journalism we have today - maybe he did it with infinite series!

cool! Wish they told us what the problem was that he solved and showed his solution. It would be great to check out!

Translating from German. I don't have access to his paper unfortunately.

The first sounds like: Ballistic trajectory with Newtonian friction.

The second: Particle-wall collision using Hertz contact model and linear damping.

Just on a side note. The first supercomputer was used mainly for ballistic computations.

Writing up the differential equations for both problems is left as an exercise for the reader.

Originally posted by MESSAGEFROMTHESTARS

The Indians are great at mathematics and science.

If someone else doesn't find this absolutely hilarious, I live in a scary world.



High five?

What an incredibly ignorant statement. Indians are head and shoulders above their counterparts in the United States in math and science.

I'd put the education level of a first year Indian University student up against the equivalent first year American University student any day of the week.

Originally posted by PurpleChiten
cool! Wish they told us what the problem was that he solved and showed his solution. It would be great to check out!

I'm sure you have access to Google.

Originally posted by moebius
Translating from German. I don't have access to his paper unfortunately.

The first sounds like: Ballistic trajectory with Newtonian friction.

The second: Particle-wall collision using Hertz contact model and linear damping.

Just on a side note. The first supercomputer was used mainly for ballistic computations.

Writing up the differential equations for both problems is left as an exercise for the reader.

True, the first supercomputers were used by the Navy to calculate missile trajectories. The first computers of the modern age were used by the British Secret Service to crack German codes.

Originally posted by MESSAGEFROMTHESTARS

The Indians are great at mathematics and science.

If someone else doesn't find this absolutely hilarious, I live in a scary world.



High five?

Indian people did invent market economics you would think after 4000 years of haggling they be good at math

Originally posted by THE_PROFESSIONAL
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The Indians are great at mathematics and science.

And blacks have great rythm.

Originally posted by babybunnies
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I'd put the education level of a first year Indian University student up against the equivalent first year American University student any day of the week.

That's not because Indians as such are better at math. That's because the American school system has learned to be content with less.

Seriously though. If your post hadn't looked like a stereotype joke, people wouldn't have jumped on it.

Had you just said that American education has been dumbed down, nobody could have disagreed.

Knowing the Daily Mail, the correct story is: German schoolboy solves mathmatical puzzles that we don't even understand so he must be waaaaay cleverer than what we are and therefore the clevererererest person in the world ever and better than Newton and Einstein and Jesus put together .....



(no disrepect to the lad who obviously is much more intelligent that the entire Daily Mail staff put together)

Jeez, talk about cynical Saturday. Can we all just agree that the man in question is very clever and can probably give answers to "questions" most of us (myself included at the front of that queue!) can't even comprehend?

I surely would like to examine the research papers as I am a fan of Newton, Einstein, Leonardo, Euler, Ramanujan, all the great geniuses of our time. Most collision theories rely on macro calculations and elastic dynamics and kinematics and use newtonian physics for large objects.

His theory would revolutionize thermodynamics and statistical physics and nuclear physics because all these fields involve the study of thermodynamics and kinematics.