[Metalhead]

By Jill Reilly: 01:05 GMT, 26 May 2012

A 16-year-old has managed to crack puzzles which have baffled the world of maths for more than
350 years. Shouryya Ray has been hailed a genius after working out the problems set by Sir Isaac
Newton. The schoolboy, from Dresden, Germany, solved two fundamental particle dynamics theories
which physicists have previously been unable to calculate even by using powerful computers.



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. Shouryya only came across the problems during a school trip to
Dresden University where professors claimed they were uncrackable.