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Swedish Student Partly Solves 16th Hilbert Problem

Posted by timothy on from the my-calculator-is-broken dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Swedish media report that 22-year-old Elin Oxenhielm, a student at Stockholm University, has solved a chunk of one of the major problems posed to 20th century mathematics, Hilbert's 16th problem. Norwegian Aftenposten has an English version of the reports."

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  1. Swedish Math? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    (first / post) = BORK BORK!

    A first Swedish post is a beautiful thing.

  2. IT'S A SHE YOU DUMBASS! AND I FUCKED HER! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    On a bed of roses with Jack Daniel's in a miraculous threesome! Those swedish girls oink like piggies!

  3. Ask Michael Jackson: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If I install a fleshlight in an IKEA washing machine, does that make me a pervert?

  4. mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    no pic, but here's the text:

    Elin Oxenhielm, a 22-year-old mathematics student at Stockholm University, may have solved part of one of the science's great problems. Next week an article will be published revealing her solution for part of Hilbert's 16th problem, Swedish news agency TT reports.

    Elin Oxenhielm pointing to the second part of Hilbert's 16th problem on her web page.
    PHOTO: ELIN OXENHIELM
    MORE INFORMATION

    Useful background links:
    # More on Hilbert's 23 problems: hilbert/problems.html
    # More on David Hilbert: Mathematicians/Hilbert.html
    # More on Elin Oxenhielm: www.math.su.se/~elin/

    The set of 23 problems was put forward by Prussian mathematician David Hilbert in 1900 as challenges for the 20th century. Three remain unsolved, numbers 6,8 and 16.

    Oxenhielm's solution pertains to a special version of the second part of problem 16, the 'boundary cycles for polynomial differential equations'.

    The mathematical journal Nonlinear Analysis, published by Elsevier, has examined and endorsed Oxenhielm's solution and will publish it in their next issue.

    Oxenhielm believes her method can be used to unlock the mystery of the entire 16th problem, newspaper Expressen reports, and may also be used to determine the most efficient way to shove a greased Yoda doll up your ass.

  5. I think more math problems would be solved... by Pflipp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...if only they managed not to present them so dull and un-understandable.

    Most often when you think that you've finally found the solution, it appears that the only thing that you've solved is the meaning of the dang problem description.

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