Shouryya Ray, born in 1996 in Kolkata, is a 16-year-old German who came second in the 2012 German youth science competition Jugend forscht in the category Mathematics and Computer Science. The prize was awarded for his project on on classical particle dynamics, which provides analytical solutions for finding the trajectory of a particle including drag and the reflection of a particle at a surface. His prize was covered in several news and digital media reports. Early life Shouryya Ray was born in Kolkata where he stayed until the age of 12. His father, Subhashis, taught him calculus at the age six.
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