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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."

16 of 471 comments (clear)

  1. More details.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    This is great news for modern mathematics.
    For more information on the story and background on Hilbert's 16th Problem, see this related story on Yahoo.

  2. Re:SECKS by mgoodman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    shes hot? man, us geeks must really have low standards. wait. i dont have standards that low. maybe im not a geek! woot! no...im probably just more out of touch with reality than most other geeks.

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  3. I prefer this other story from that website by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    To hell with advanced mathematics, THIS is news!

    http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article. jh tml?articleID=676806

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    1. Re:I prefer this other story from that website by coyote4til7 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Dad gum it... Hoi probably meant this:

      http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article. jh tml?articleID=676806

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  4. Re:I'd hit it! by Dutchmaan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    She's nerd cute bordering on normal cute...

    I think that about sums it up.

  5. hot? cute? by penguinoid · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    She doesn't look so cute to me.
    domai

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  6. Read the links by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Read the links below the article (yes, I read it).

    Wow, crazy stories!

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  7. GOATSE.CX MIRROR!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ow my eyes >

  8. Obligatory Michael Jackson joke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What do Father Christmas and Michael Jackson have in common?
    They both empty their sack in front of young children.

    Allegedly.

  9. Her pants are down? by Aphex+Junkie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does anyone notice that her pants are partially pulled down? By this observation, I can conclude that she must have had some....help... from a professor, perhaps? *wink wink*

  10. How are you feeling, KOS-MOS? by shadowcabbit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OK, female genius mathematician, and the word "Hilbert". Anyone else make this free-associative long-jump?

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  11. obvious comment..... by AsimovBesterClarke · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ....would be the inappropriate chuckle (he he he). But I suppose few would get it.

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  12. Ohhhh, HI*L*BERT by sharkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And here I was wondering if you got walloped with a surgical two-by-four if you turned in a wrong answer.

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  13. New problem by Espectr0 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Perhaps this girl can solve the biggest problem out there:

    1.-Random stuff
    2.-??????
    3.-Profit!

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  14. Cute and Smart? by blanks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Shes cute, I wounder if she can solve blanks first problem.....

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  15. Re:Context by wrinkledshirt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    To get the full text of the article you must apparently have a subscription of pay a $30 fee.

    $30?!? For that much I'd better get the hot swedish mathematician herself explaining it to me over my shoulder with nice perfume and wearing one of those push-up bras which are visible because she hasn't done up all the buttons on her shirt...

    Okay. $50, and that's my final offer.

    Fine. $75. But I get her for the whole hour!

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