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Solve this equation please, math skills = 0

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Hadrian Blackstone
Yamato Holdings
#21 - 2014-02-28 23:12:49 UTC
Translation: Moving targets are hard to hit.
Kimmi Chan
Tastes Like Purple
#22 - 2014-02-28 23:14:09 UTC
Hadrian Blackstone wrote:
Translation: Moving targets are hard to hit.


Especially when you forget to carry the 1.

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CETA Elitist
The Prometheus Society
#23 - 2014-03-01 00:15:49 UTC
Akirei Scytale wrote:
CCP Falcon wrote:
42!

:3

(I too, am terrible at math Big smile)



Don't worry, so was Einstein. He actually hired mathematicians to prove his intuitive ideas for him. They were generally way beyond his capacity to prove.

Wow. You learn something new every decade I guess.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#24 - 2014-03-01 00:25:30 UTC
Akirei Scytale wrote:
CCP Falcon wrote:
42!

:3

(I too, am terrible at math Big smile)

Don't worry, so was Einstein. He actually hired mathematicians to prove his intuitive ideas for him. They were generally way beyond his capacity to prove.

Well, no. He was not bad at maths. In fact, he excelled at it throughout his entire education. I don't know off hand if he hired mathematicians or if he just had his calculations peer-reviewed, so a source on that would be nice.
Kimmi Chan
Tastes Like Purple
#25 - 2014-03-01 00:39:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Kimmi Chan
Tippia wrote:
Akirei Scytale wrote:
CCP Falcon wrote:
42!

:3

(I too, am terrible at math Big smile)

Don't worry, so was Einstein. He actually hired mathematicians to prove his intuitive ideas for him. They were generally way beyond his capacity to prove.

Well, no. He was not bad at maths. In fact, he excelled at it throughout his entire education. I don't know off hand if he hired mathematicians or if he just had his calculations peer-reviewed, so a source on that would be nice.


I seem to recall this in a documentary I watched on General Relativity. The mathematician proved the mathematics of it and Einstein and an astronomer performed an experiment showing that the mass (and therefore gravity) of the Sun refracted the light of stars in the Sun's corona. I can not remember the names are the specifics of the maths or the solar experiment but will see what I can find.

ED: I should rephrase refracted to bent. It is called Gravitational Lensing. As I search my memory on the matter (and continue to search for a more reliable source), Einstein did not hire the mathematician but they were colleagues. Einstein asked his colleague to try and prove it "on paper" and then followed it with a observational experiment (as noted above with light being bent by the gravity of the Sun) which, again if memory serves, was actually conducted by a colleague in New Zealand (perhaps due to an eclipse).

Still looking Tippia. I started watching a documentary and got into it a bit too much. Big smile

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Trevor Dalech
Nobody in Local
Of Sound Mind
#26 - 2014-03-01 06:31:03 UTC
Kimmi Chan wrote:
Tippia wrote:
Akirei Scytale wrote:
CCP Falcon wrote:
42!

:3

(I too, am terrible at math Big smile)

Don't worry, so was Einstein. He actually hired mathematicians to prove his intuitive ideas for him. They were generally way beyond his capacity to prove.

Well, no. He was not bad at maths. In fact, he excelled at it throughout his entire education. I don't know off hand if he hired mathematicians or if he just had his calculations peer-reviewed, so a source on that would be nice.


I seem to recall this in a documentary I watched on General Relativity. The mathematician proved the mathematics of it and Einstein and an astronomer performed an experiment showing that the mass (and therefore gravity) of the Sun refracted the light of stars in the Sun's corona. I can not remember the names are the specifics of the maths or the solar experiment but will see what I can find.

ED: I should rephrase refracted to bent. It is called Gravitational Lensing. As I search my memory on the matter (and continue to search for a more reliable source), Einstein did not hire the mathematician but they were colleagues. Einstein asked his colleague to try and prove it "on paper" and then followed it with a observational experiment (as noted above with light being bent by the gravity of the Sun) which, again if memory serves, was actually conducted by a colleague in New Zealand (perhaps due to an eclipse).

Still looking Tippia. I started watching a documentary and got into it a bit too much. Big smile


We're starting to stray from the original topic a bit, but heck, this is way more fun!

Einstein worked together with Grossman and Levi-Cevita to incorporate differential geometry into his theory of general relativity, which was some cutting edge maths at the time. These are quite well known mathematicians, one does not simply 'hire' them, saying so is like saying you hired Bill Gates for tech support. Einstein himself was in fact quite good at maths, the idea he was not is an urban myth stemming from a misinterpretation of his high school grades.

Several years later Einsteins theory was confirmed by Eddington, by observing starlight deflection during a solar eclipse. As far as I know, Einstein was not directly involved with this observation.
Jacob Holland
Weyland-Vulcan Industries
#27 - 2014-03-01 11:38:15 UTC
As I understand it, Einstein suggested the observation as a possible proof of the theory, Eddington was asked to make the observation and corrensponded with Einstein considerably afterwards - but Einstein was not involved in the observation itself.
Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#28 - 2014-03-01 16:13:51 UTC
Just derive the equation for traversal velocity and solve that for the limit as "chance to hit" approaches zero.


Or just go for 42 .
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