Mathematics projects earned the second and third place honors in the Intel Science Talent Search, the nation’s most prestigious pre-college science and math competition.
Kevin Lee, 17, of Irvine, California, won second place and $75,000 for developing a mathematical model to describe the shape of the heart as it beats using the principles of fluid mechanics, while William Henry Kuszmaul, 17, of Lexington, Massachusetts, won third place and $50,000 for devising a new approach to the mathematics of modular enumeration.
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