Boy, 16, Wins Top Award at Math Competition
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A 16-year-old San Diego boy won the top individual award of $100,000 in the Siemens Westinghouse competition in New York on Monday for his innovative approach to an old math problem that could improve the design of airplane wings.
Michael Viscardi came up with a new theorem to solve the Dirichlet Problem, formulated by mathematician Lejeune Dirichlet in the 19th century.
Viscardi “is a super-duper mathematics student, “ said lead judge Constance Atwell, former research director of the National Institutes of Health.
