A student from the Free University of Bolzano, Italy, has created a scientific software for Apple's iPhone called "Fractal Editor" that could help students learn abstract math concepts.

Michael Dijori, last semester attended Franklin & Marshall College, developed the application that works

by placing a few shapes on the phone's touchscreen with either a one- or two-finger tap and then resizing, moving, rotating and shearing the images.

He just learned last month that Apple accepted the application and now it's available to download for free from Apple's online iTunes store. Dijori admitted that he was shocked that Apple accepted the application. "Actually, I didn't plan to send the application to Apple. Professor Anderson decided to do this, and I was really surprised."

According to Professor Anderson, Dijori's application originally was rejected by Apple last fall, but Anderson advised him to tweak the application and resubmit it.

Well done, dude. Congrats!

[via Lancaster Online]