Nigerian student Ufot Ekong scores the best marks at Japanese university since 1965, solves unsolvab
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[url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/nigerian-student-ufot-ekong-solves-30yearold-maths-equation-and-breaks-academic-record-at-japanese-university-10303064.html[/url]
[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/06/08/nigerian-student-ufot-ekong-solves-30-year-old-maths-equation_n_7533358.html[/url]
[QUOTE]A Nigerian student has achieved the highest grades at a Japanese university for the past 50 years, while solving a mathematical equation which was unsolvable 30 years ago, in his first semester.
Ufot Ekong achieved a first in electrical engineering at Tokai University in Tokyo, scoring the best marks since 1965, CCTV Africa reported.
...The Nigerian speaks English, French, Japanese and Yoruba, his country's native language, and paid his way through university himself.[/QUOTE]
Some people are just better than everybody.
Like I won't say he looks fantastic, but I think he does have a good look
I'm not trying to devalue the man's accomplishments - I'm sure he has a promising career ahead of him - but a lot of websites don't seem to be accurate in what they're reporting.
For instance, according to this website [URL]http://cctv-africa.com/2015/05/19/nigerian-student-ufot-ekong-breaks-the-record-of-excellence/[/URL] , he's hasn't achieved the best marks since 1965, he's achieved the best marks [I]by a Nigerian[/I] since 1965.
I hate his glasses but great for the guy
Any idea what the unsolvable math problem was? I'm interested in what it could be - there's not too much cutting-edge math involved in electrical engineering, for the most part, so either he's studying math way beyond the level his degree needs, or he found a solution to a problem a lot of people have already looked at and failed to solve. Either way, probably interesting.
It's things like this that solidify my realization that I will never amount to anything.
I found his name difficult to comprehend at first, since UofT is the University of Toronto, and I was wondering what it had to do with Japan at first.
[QUOTE=revan740;47910191]It's things like this that solidify my realization that I will never amount to anything.[/QUOTE]
pretty sure that defeatist mentality would be more of a problem
[QUOTE=gman003-main;47910176]Any idea what the unsolvable math problem was? I'm interested in what it could be - there's not too much cutting-edge math involved in electrical engineering, for the most part, so either he's studying math way beyond the level his degree needs, or he found a solution to a problem a lot of people have already looked at and failed to solve. Either way, probably interesting.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I'm wondering what it was too. I think the last student to "solve" an impossible equation actually ended up getting it wrong well after all the publicity ended.
Not to discredit this guy, just curious.
Sir Andrew John Wiles
[QUOTE=gman003-main;47910176]Any idea what the unsolvable math problem was? I'm interested in what it could be - there's not too much cutting-edge math involved in electrical engineering, for the most part, so either he's studying math way beyond the level his degree needs, or he found a solution to a problem a lot of people have already looked at and failed to solve. Either way, probably interesting.[/QUOTE]
He solved a statistical problem concerning how many fraudulent letters and e-mails need to be sent before one receives a positive financial response. This problem was set by a Nigerian Mathematician in 1985.
The only thing I could find on his problem was some plasma-frequency problem which probably used quantum mechanics or something of that order which makes some sense because electrical studies can drift into quantum mechanics, i just had a circuits class with an EE who had a PhD in it
To make matters worse basically every site is running the same very brief article so its hard to corelate.
This guy looks too good to be true though, but who knows we might hear more of him later
[QUOTE=Scratch.;47910073][img]http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article10302980.ece/alternates/w620/ufot_ekong.jpg[/img]
:D[/QUOTE]
Of course. Thick-rimmed glasses with no actual glass.
[QUOTE=Scratch.;47910083]Like I won't say he looks fantastic, but I think he does have a good look[/QUOTE]
why does this matter?
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47910075]Elon Musk V2[/QUOTE]
elon is a visionary, this man is a genius
[QUOTE=Steve Harvey;47911268]why does this matter?[/QUOTE]
woah that's deep
He found out the Watermelonium formula? :v:
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What was the answer?
I call bullshit, it started out with some obscure clickbait sites and now it just spread to the major news sites. No one mentioned exactly what he solved, there's no publication, no follow up interview.
damn I can't find which mathematical equation they're talking about, I need to know this
[QUOTE=0x0000000C;47910974]Of course. Thick-rimmed glasses with no actual glass.[/QUOTE]
Today's anti-glare coating is pretty amazing.
[QUOTE=Gas/spg;47913554]damn I can't find which mathematical equation they're talking about, I need to know this[/QUOTE]
Google says it was [url=http://www.quora.com/What-problem-did-Utof-Ekong-solve]"[B]Determination of Instantaneous Frequencies of Low Plasma Waves in the Magnetosheath Using Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) and Hilbert Transform (HT)[/B]"[/url]
I'd take that with a grain of salt though.
[editline]9th June 2015[/editline]
This reddit thread about the story makes it a lot clearer.
[url]http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/38qv7h/nigerian_student_solves_30_year_old_math_equation/[/url]
His name is actually "Utof" Ekong and the problem was solved while he was still in Nigeria.
[QUOTE=Rocket;47910484]Do you mean the Fermat's Last Theorem guy? He managed to solve it for real later.[/QUOTE]
He kind of solved it for real the first time, but there was some errors in his work.
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