Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations (2007)

Re:Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citatio... by bitL on Monday March 08, 2021 @10:03AM (#26386469)

> She says she didn't publish this model for glory, but she also named it after herself.

Aren't many Nobel Prizes in Economics done like that? Take some well-known math/physics formula, rename variables to make them represent some economic quantities, name the resulting formula after oneself, publish, get the prize?

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Re:Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citatio... by newswasboring on Monday March 08, 2021 @10:37AM (#26386813)

> rename variables to make them represent some economic quantities

You cannot trivialize this step. Most people's job in data analysis is basically this. Figuring out what quantity fits where in the formula _is_ the research.

edit: To make it clear, it would have been fine if here model explained something using trapezoidal formula. But she seems to be claiming the formula, not a model.

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Re:Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citatio... by tjs8rj on Monday March 08, 2021 @10:16AM (#26386591)

Any examples? Not something I've ever noticed but would love to read about.

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Re:Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citatio... by tacon on Monday March 08, 2021 @10:30AM (#26386731)

I think the Black-Scholes option pricing model reapplied a well known result from neutron transport in nuclear engineering.

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Re:Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citatio... by jjk166 on Monday March 08, 2021 @12:33PM (#26388643)

Both the Black-Scholes formula and the Neutron Transport Equation are instances of the heat equation, which describes a wide variety of different phenomena.

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