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Teen solves Newton’s 300-year-old riddle

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See previous discussion, which digs into the sources and suggests that there is less here than the headline promises:

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

Or see

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4030148

as an example of how a major mathematical discovery by a teenager is verified and followed up.

Ah, thanks tokenadult. Searched around but didn't see it posted previously.

Has anyone found the publication? All I have read is hype about this but I can't find the original source.

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