German Teen Solves Mathematical Riddle First Proposed by Sir Isaac Newton

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There's a follow-up here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4034487

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...

"he's found a closed-form solution of a 2D projectile with friction proportional to the square of the velocity"

Your phrase there contains more actual information than all of the news articles linked from HN so far. And your links provide most of the details that I was curious about.

This last dupe is particularly egregious. The linked article is simple plagiarism, and the illiterate author's attempt to rearrange some sentences produce some choice gibberish.

Yes thanks, we heard it the first 10 times.

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