tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10162381.post2381433700945617813..comments2023-10-29T10:41:21.303-04:00Comments on Castro's Favorite Color: Mathematicians Solve 140 Year-Old Boltzmann EquationHowardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14914637175040341245noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10162381.post-55140867920299588242010-05-18T17:24:29.387-04:002010-05-18T17:24:29.387-04:00You must be right. Maybe I should buy an advanced ...You must be right. Maybe I should buy an advanced calculus book and learn all the English names or else I'll continue being overwhelmed for no reason...then again, it's more fun this way.Irinanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10162381.post-81372811488886266992010-05-18T11:19:17.059-04:002010-05-18T11:19:17.059-04:00I suspect the terminology was just different in Ru...I suspect the terminology was just different in Russian. My college advanced calculas book, circa 1975, (yes, I still have it) has a chapter on partial differentiation and I don't think it was recent then. Apparently I understood it at the time since I had underlined several passages.Kimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10162381.post-45048002495134991792010-05-17T20:53:06.324-04:002010-05-17T20:53:06.324-04:00Here is to science and all its wonders! I majored ...Here is to science and all its wonders! I majored in differential equations and wrote my masters' thesis on a special (odnorodnie?) kind of them. Yet I've never heard of partial differential equations, they must be new. It's simply amazing how even mathematics, stable as they are, keep getting richer, old theorems get proved for new dimensions (see Grisha Perelman's achievement) etc. I guess I'm somewhat overwhelmed.Irinanoreply@blogger.com