Last night after we put the kids to bed my husband and I thought we might go on the internet and look at some of the promotional material for the new Indiana Jones movie. Then I noticed that my brother Jim had e-mailed asking for help in solving the following equation:
1/T=A + B ln(R) + C (ln(R))^3
My husband the math professor took one look at that and said, "No problem." Some Italian mathematician in the 1600's had already solved it. Here's the simplest of the three solutions:
You can click on that image to get a better look. Beautiful, isn't it?
4 comments:
Huh? I don't see the solution. Are you implying that the simplest solution is essentially nothing?
You may have looked at the post before I added the equation graphic. Try again.
Beautiful? Huh. I'd say "jaw dropper" or "head scratcher". Althought I can appreciate how beautiful it would be to someone who actually gets it. Beautiful...funny.
Actually, I said 16th Century Italian, which would make it the 1500s. His name was Cardano.
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