Mathematician Solves a Big One After 140 Years

Posted by kdawson on Monday March 3, 2008 @03:03PM 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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Re:My company went through numerous GPL violations by Lord+Kano · 2008-03-03 18:42 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Why in the fuck is your company writing "investment firm" software in the kernel?

LK

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