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Topic: Schoolboy cracks age-old mathematics problem
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Immortalist

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Re: Schoolboy cracks age-old mathematics problem
Posted: May 28, 2012 12:58 PM

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On May 27, 12:23 am, use...@mantra.com and/or www.mantra.com/jai (Dr.
Jai Maharaj) wrote:
> Schoolboy cracks age-old maths problem
>

The article's only citation is to an Indian news website which repeats
the claims of the British tabloid The Daily Mail. This is not a
reliable source. ?Psychonaut (talk) 11:23, 27 May 2012 (UTC) yeah, I'm
seeing this story everywhere but Can't find any details on the actual
math involved.144.132.197.230 (talk) 11:38, 27 May 2012 (UTC) Where is
the maths problem and what was his solution? 220.239.37.244 (talk)
11:44, 27 May 2012 (UTC) ha I guess I am not the only one looking for
the problem. It's just annoying when you hear something like an
unsolved problem in physics and they don't tell you the actual
problem. ? Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.197.8.154 (talk)
12:17, 27 May 2012 (UTC) Page should be deleted and recreated some
time in the future if the story turns out to be true. It's too soon
and Wikipedia is not a news source. There should also be a verifiable
citation of the nature of the two problems in question and that they
actually were regarded as unsolven previously. 82.6.102.118 (talk)
14:02, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

> The problem is to calculate the trajectory of a body thrown at
> an angle in the Earth's gravitational field and in a Newtonian
> fluid.
>

In "Mathematical Aspects of Classical and Celestial Mechanics", Arnold
& co. claim that this problem was solved by Legendre for a wide class
of power law resistance terms of the form

cv^y

The extract is attached. Arnold claims that the 1st order equation
which the system reduces to is soluble by the method of variation of
parameters, but when he says something like this you always get the
impression he's ducking out. But what do you know, Wolfram alpha
solves it so I assume the method must work eventually.

Maybe the solution here is for more complicated force laws, or for a
particle which perhaps has angular momentum or something? Of course,
it's also possible that everyone (outside of Russia) simply forgot
that the solution had ever been found.

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=3930417

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