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Post by Shadow on Dec 7, 2005 19:11:45 GMT -5
WRALPOSTED: 2:41 pm EST December 5, 2005 UPDATED: 2:41 pm EST December 5, 2005 WASHINGTON -- A 16-year-old California boy won a premier high school science competition Monday for his innovative approach to an old math problem that could help in the design of airplane wings. Michael Viscardi, a senior from San Diego, won a $100,000 college scholarship, the top individual prize in the Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology. Viscardi said he's been homeschooled since fifth grade, although he does take math classes at the University of California at San Diego three days a week. His father is a software engineer and his mother, who stays at home, has a Ph.D. in neuroscience, he said. "It's unbelievable," Viscardi said of his win. "It's so incredible that I'm in shock right now." Viscardi tackled a 19th century math problem known as the Dirichlet problem, formulated by the mathematician Lejeune Dirichlet. The theorem Viscardi created to solve it has potential applications in the fields of engineering and physics, including airplane wing design. He said he worked on it for about six months with a professor at UCSD.
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Post by Doc on Dec 8, 2005 0:23:47 GMT -5
WRALPOSTED: 2:41 pm EST December 5, 2005 UPDATED: 2:41 pm EST December 5, 2005 WASHINGTON -- A 16-year-old California boy won a premier high school science competition Monday for his innovative approach to an old math problem that could help in the design of airplane wings. Michael Viscardi, a senior from San Diego, won a $100,000 college scholarship, the top individual prize in the Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology. Viscardi said he's been homeschooled since fifth grade, although he does take math classes at the University of California at San Diego three days a week. His father is a software engineer and his mother, who stays at home, has a Ph.D. in neuroscience, he said. "It's unbelievable," Viscardi said of his win. "It's so incredible that I'm in shock right now." Viscardi tackled a 19th century math problem known as the Dirichlet problem, formulated by the mathematician Lejeune Dirichlet. The theorem Viscardi created to solve it has potential applications in the fields of engineering and physics, including airplane wing design. He said he worked on it for about six months with a professor at UCSD. Very cool. Good for him. Hey, maybe real good too for future airplane passengers......
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Post by beatlies on Dec 8, 2005 17:40:15 GMT -5
Don't forget this is the USA: he'll probably work for the Pentagon or CIA or NSA devising new aerial weapons to mass murder people, if he isn't already, as if this propaganda "contest" isn't already as rigged a Faul and Foris ...
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Post by Shadow on Dec 8, 2005 19:04:26 GMT -5
Don't forget this is the USA: he'll probably work for the Pentagon or CIA or NSA devising new aerial weapons to mass murder people, if he isn't already, as if this propaganda "contest" isn't already as rigged a Faul and Foris ... Or worse still; What if his work is stolen by said groups? How many inventors have seen their lifes work snatched away from them and used for purposes other than what they had invisioned for it?
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