An article in the Raw Story, bu Muriel Kane, tells about a boy in Germany who has solved what was previously presumed to be insoluble. She wrote: "Sixteen year old Shouryya Ray denies being a genius, but he’s being haled
in news reports for having come up with the solution to a problem that
has baffled mathematicians ever since Sir Isaac Newton first posed it
over 300 years ago.
The problem involved calculating the path of a projectile that is subject to both gravity and air resistance. Ray also solved a second problem, involving a body colliding with a wall, as part of a school project.
Ray says his chief motivation was curiosity. “When it was explained to us that the problems had no solutions, I thought to myself: well, there’s no harm in trying,” he explained.
Ray, who was born in Kolkata, India, moved to Germany four years ago when his engineer father got a job teaching at a technical college in Dresden. He says that he acquired his “hunger for mathematics” when he learned calculus from his father at the age of six — but now the son has outstripped the father’s ability to follow.
“He never discussed his project with me before it was finished and the mathematics he used are far beyond my reach,” Subhashis Ray admits."
Geniuses are few but they do exist in our world. Had this father not introduced him to mathematics; had he been stuck in a class with a very incompetent teacher who lacked the capacity to make children enthusiastic about learning, or worse, a teacher who totally took away initiative and quelled curiosity, it would be a worse waste of potential than the unborn potential genius who never saw life due an abortion. Those who turn out to become a genius randomly happen. The combination of sperm meeting ovum also happens randomly to produce any living child. Think of all the combinations that will never happen and didn't happen even before contraceptives and abortion. The figure is astronomical and beyond our ability to even speculate.
The problem involved calculating the path of a projectile that is subject to both gravity and air resistance. Ray also solved a second problem, involving a body colliding with a wall, as part of a school project.
Ray says his chief motivation was curiosity. “When it was explained to us that the problems had no solutions, I thought to myself: well, there’s no harm in trying,” he explained.
Ray, who was born in Kolkata, India, moved to Germany four years ago when his engineer father got a job teaching at a technical college in Dresden. He says that he acquired his “hunger for mathematics” when he learned calculus from his father at the age of six — but now the son has outstripped the father’s ability to follow.
“He never discussed his project with me before it was finished and the mathematics he used are far beyond my reach,” Subhashis Ray admits."
Geniuses are few but they do exist in our world. Had this father not introduced him to mathematics; had he been stuck in a class with a very incompetent teacher who lacked the capacity to make children enthusiastic about learning, or worse, a teacher who totally took away initiative and quelled curiosity, it would be a worse waste of potential than the unborn potential genius who never saw life due an abortion. Those who turn out to become a genius randomly happen. The combination of sperm meeting ovum also happens randomly to produce any living child. Think of all the combinations that will never happen and didn't happen even before contraceptives and abortion. The figure is astronomical and beyond our ability to even speculate.
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