Follow-up on the 16-year-old Mathematician Story

This to accompany some previous submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4028756

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4029599

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4029676

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4031332

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4031625

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4034225

Consensus seems to be that he's found a closed-form solution of a 2D projectile with friction proportional to the square of the velocity:

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/u7551/teen_solves...

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/150242/teenager-solv...

The funny part about differential equations is that, for a subset of them, there isn't really a systematic way to solve them. You just have to have a talent for it. The great mathematician Ramanujan would come up with bizarre equations that worked but he didn't really provide any information as to how he got there, they just came to him from his subconscious.

For example:

This 1/pi equation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan#Mathematical_achievem...