Hindemburg Melão Jr.


Hindemburg Melão Jr. is a Brazilian philosopher, investor, epistemologist, theologian, author, retired chess player, amateur astrophotographer, and science popularizer.
Hindemburg has written over 1600 articles on science, philosophy, chess, finance, among other fields, and the book IMC na Balança.
Hindemburg is known as a player of correspondence chess, and of blindfold chess, where he holds the record for “longest announced mate in simultaneous blindfold chess”, with an announced checkmate in 12 moves in a simultaneous exhibition against nine boards, which was recorded in the Guinness Book. He has also gathered a collection of blindfold chess games from many players from different epochs.
He is also a chess analyst and theoretician, having twice received the distinction of having theoretical innovations considered among the best by the jury of Šahovski Informator. Hindemburg is interested in the subject of human intelligence, and is the founder of , Brazil's former most selective high IQ society.

BMI

In his 2008 book, IMC na Balança, Hindemburg proposed a correction in the formula used for the body mass index:
where m is the mass and h the height of a person, in the International System of Units.
In 2013 Nick Trefethen proposed a new different formula to calculate the BMI of a person:

Saturno V

His studies on the financial market have resulted in the creation of , an artificial intelligence software that continuously analyzes the prices of financial instruments in search for morphological patterns. It was presented at Shark Tank.

Philosophical views

Astronomy

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