Bernoulli Numbers Puzzle Solved by Teen

[EPelle]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090528/od ... 0528124335

In just four months, Mohamed Altoumaimi has found a formula to explain and simplify the so-called Bernoulli numbers, a sequence of calculations named after the 17th century Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli, the Dagens Nyheter daily said.

For you maths guys out there, what is the significance of this?

[Marlow]

I was just kicking around some formulae in my head and came up with this to express a BN



:P

[gh]

being a subtle kind of guy, I eschew exclamation marks, which is, I guess, why my "k" in the formal never worked.