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Swedish Student Partly Solves 16th Hilbert Problem
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."
You solved the whole thing or you got an F.
I'm still trying to figure out the 15th Dilbert cartoon ...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Just somethingto think of.
Uh, sorry. Thought I was on fark for a second.
Seriosly though, a hot Swedish mathematician? That's so much like my dreams it's scary.
Jurisprudence Fetishist Gets Off On A Technicality --theonion.com
In this case the theory that it's to get chicks can probably be ruled out, as:
... I read it first time as "Swedish Student Party"
Seemed to be an interesting image!!
in something only 10 slashdotters know anything about;
And you thought
An infinite number of monkeys will eventually come up with the complete works of
Just kidding ... these are perfectly reasonable stories. But I'm still a bit surprised. But then, slashdot readers don't disappoint. They immediately honed in on Turing's sexuality and the student's physical attributes. Math, what math?
Mencken had it right. So glad that's old news.
Looks like the 20th century FAILED IT!!!!
Awww crap, did I say that out loud?!!! I'm gonna get a karma burn for that!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
all those people who comment with a "he" demonstrate that a good proportion of slashdotters don't even click the links and see the stuff linked to... it's a SHE!!!... and she's got a cute belly and a sweet smile too...
wow... imagine taking her to bed... i don't know if it'd turn me on that she's a published mathematician of extraordinary achievement or if it'd make me having an erection an infinitesmially remote possibility.
Maybe you weren't expecting a sloven, coke-bottled, matted-haired geek like the rest of us apparently were.
the caption below the photo says "Elin Oxenhielm pointing to the second part of Hilbert's 16th problem on her web page"
looks like a chalkboard to me...
oh well.
For about 1.7 seconds, I thought the headline said ... oh, nevermind.
"It's not your information. It's information about you" - John Ford, Vice President, Equifax
They've got cute mathematicians, terrorist beavers, psychopathic elves and I've got friends over there. That's it, I'm moving to Norway.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
I'm impressed by the sweedish girls at Stockholm University.
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Norwegian Aftenposten has an English version of the reports."
Uh..can anybody translate the english version into moron for me?
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
I just read that as
"Swedish Student Party Solves 16th Hilbert Problem"
And
It's a chick who solved it
Math chicks always get me hot. And she is one hot math chick.
I'd love to estimate the area under her curves.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
I doubt there's a single hetero- or homosexual female on this earth that will sleep with someone because they solved a math problem.
you underestimate the loneliness of the slashdot crowd
> not only that... but it's like she's showing off the ring too!!
Yeah, and it's like the writing on the blackboard is her boasting about her guy...how does it make you feel, huh? Angry, right? So angry you've just got to do SOMETHING...you're not going to let her get away with it, are you?
That was pretty nice, leading us down a primrose path and then throwing that 4th babe in there. Wasn't expecting that fine piece of crumpet. You bastard.
Or the volume, in this case. ;-)
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!
To hell with estimating, I'd rather have a firm grasp on the number.
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
Our mathematicians are busy dribbling^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hanalizing around the girl^H^H^H^Hproblem
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More than mere navel gazing.
I believe it'll remain imaginary for you...
It's sad, but I was more excited to see EverQuest Players Defeat 'Unkillable' Monster than the solving of a math problem. Makes ya wonder who's more geekier.
I wonder how many people read the article only because of this post here.
I know I did.
Computer Go: Writing Software to Play the Ancient Game of Go
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>Many, many times. All in the interest of science, of course. Hubba, hubba.
You're not a mathematician, you're a physicist. Not as bad as an engineer, mind you.
The picture of Elig proves that there exists at least one female mathematician for whom "I'd hit it". As a mathematician, that's good enough!
She was wearing a Tux shirt, but she told me it was her boyfriend's (sorry guys), and she didn't use computers much (just Mathematica on the SGIs).
The entire male membership of slashdot just went limp thanks to you Mr. Spoils-All-The-Fun!
GMD
watch this
Yes. Broad generalizations never work well.
Hi, I'm Elin. Let's see if you can figure this out...
:)
Imagine that my bra size is 30B, dress size is 8, and pants size is 30, and I'm changing clothes on a train going from New York to Stockholm at 80 mph that leaves at 8pm local time. Meanwhile another train going the oppisite direction at 70mph leaves Stockholm at 6am local time the same day with you inside. If my boyfriend who is infinitely hotter and smarter than you leaves Chicago on a flight to Stockholm at 7pm local time and takes 10 hours to get there, what is the area of naked skin under my clothes, and what are your chances of ever getting sight of it as our trains pass one another, taking me to heaven in the arms of Jean-Claude and you to hell in the bowels of Slashdot trolls? Show your work with your answer.
(Yes, that's a joke, I'm not Elin)
I wanted to read the responses to this article because I thought that maybe one Slashdotter could give a qualified explanation of Hilbert's 16th problem, and maybe even explain something about the partial solution. That was possible back when Andrew Wiles proved his theorem, you know.
And look at this, not a single post even gets started on the subject! At least not when you browse at +2, like I do. But we're all standing around slobbering over the thought of a hot Swedish math babe! And so am I!
Hey Taco, can we get this gal for an Ask Slashdot interview? She could explain her theorem, and tell us something about her lingerie.
Always keep a sapphire in your mind
What are you an idiot?!? Haven't you seen any teen love movies? Geek chicks always turn out super hot!! All you need to do is take of the glasses, let down her hair and unbutton her shirt a little.
Glasses? check
Long hair in bun? check check
Dowdy, boyish outfit? check check eheck!!!!
She is the trifecta! MAN SHE IS RIPE FOR THE TAKING!!!!
If you can't see that, well, then that's just sad.
Arbitrary sig
...I'm changing clothes on a train going from New York to Stockholm at 80 mph that leaves at 8pm local time.
I would sure like to see a _train_ from New York to Stockholm. Even better would be seing someone trying to put clothes on it.
There are 010 kinds of people. Those who understand octal, those who don't, and 06 other kinds of morons.
is on her website. We are really a big bunch of nerds on Slashdot. We talk about how hot and sexy Elin is, but nobody actually calls her up :)