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Mathematician Solves a Big One After 140 Years

Posted by kdawson on from the works-with-holes dept.

TaeKwonDood notes that ScientificBlogging.com has just written about a development in applied math that was published last year. "The Schwarz-Christoffel transformation is an elegant application of conformal mapping to make complex problems faster to solve. But it didn't do well with irregular geometries or holes, so it simplified too much for a lot of modern-day mechanical engineering applications. 140 years after Schwarz and Christoffel's work, a professor at Imperial College London has generalized the equation. MatLab users rejoice!"

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  1. wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That guy must be pretty old

    1. Re:wow by nwf · · Score: 3, Funny

      But can you prove it? There's got to be a limit somewhere here...

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      I don't know, but it works for me.
  2. I solved a big one this morning too by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 3, Funny

    I give credit to all the bran I've been eating lately.

    1. Re:I solved a big one this morning too by sakusha · · Score: 4, Funny

      You could have worked it out with a pencil.

  3. Re:Article text by jo42 · · Score: 3, Funny

    a) Make the square hole bigger, or, b) Put the round peg in a lathe and turn it down so that it fits in said hole.

  4. Re:Design by h4rm0ny · · Score: 4, Funny

    Designing a 777 or the new 7E7 off pure experimentation would take insanely more amounts of time and money.

    Not to mention pilots.
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