Take that, Sir Isaac Newton.  16-year-old Shouryya Ray has solved two fundamental particle dynamics theories, which will help scientists calculate the flight path of a thrown ball and predict how it will strike and bounce off a wall, a tough problem for hundreds of years.

Ray attributes his success to  "Schuele generic naivety" - schoolboy naiveté - but good math should not be discounted.  His engineer father started teaching him calculus at age 6.  Newton basically had to invent fluxions at age 24 so Ray had a bit of an advantage there.

16-jähriges Mathegenie löst uraltes Zahlenrätsel by Céline Lauer, Die Welt