GHAZNI - A high school student in Ghazni city has invented a mathematical formula that has been approved by the centre for sciences in Kabul, officials said on Saturday.

Khalilullah Yaqubi is an 11th grade student at the Albiruni high school of Nawabad in the outskirts of Ghazni city and a resident of Ghaghori district of the province.

It was a pride for Ghazni and the nation that a student invented a mathematical formula, the deputy governor, Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, said, while addressing a ceremony held to honour Yaqubi.

He asked the student to work hard for the country’s bright future and also urged education officials to provide higher education facilities for creative students.

The formula was first examined by the science department of education and then sent to the capital, Kabul, where it was also approved. Deputy Director of Education for Ghazni, Abdul Qudoos Rasuli, said his office would try to provide scholarship for Yaqubi to obtain higher education abroad.

“I invented the formula after a week of hard struggle without using any book or internet,” Yaqubi said, adding the formula was about algebra.

The formula was first sent to the World Philosophical Mathematics Research Centre in Kabul, where it was approved by the head of the centre, Siddique Afghan, who also sent him an appreciation letter, he added.

He asked the Ministry of Education and education department to assist him in his pursuit of higher education abroad.

Source: Pajhwok News Agency