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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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