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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."

5 of 471 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I remember by Docrates · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Not He.... She!. RTFA.

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  2. Math nerds by StikyPad · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Math nerds were never that hot in my school. Yet another reason to move to Sweden.

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  3. Re:It's funny that college kids.... by Cajun+Hell · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There's nothing sexy about a woman who can't figure out how to use Tivo.

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  4. Re:I'd hit it! by SquadBoy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Time to define terms. She is really cute and smart and that is very cool.

    This is hot.

    http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF -8 &oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=victoria+silvstedt&sa=N&tab=w i

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  5. Must be time for bed... by Jellybob · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... I read that as Sweedish Student *Party* Solves whatever it was.

    No, I havn't read the article, but my guess is the people at that party were doing some good shit to be solving what sounds like a maths problem.