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It's all Greek to me by Duncan Waldron

Some years ago, I had to photograph academics doing their thing. I found a print of the job recently, and thought the formula looked interesting. The main protagonist tells me:

“The maths describes the clustering of high points in the density field. At the time, we thought galaxies might form there (in some circumstances, we still do).”

And I watched him write it out, without his having to use a cheat sheet; you don’t become Professor for nothing.

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RosaCobosalmost 4 years ago

ha ha ha …!!!!!
For me too..
Is that the Einstein´s Relativity Formulae?
This is apt for recalcitrants physics students…
je je je.
Rosa
It’s something a lecturer wrote, when I need a photo showing academics at work. Don’t know what it means! Probably something about stars revolving around a galaxy centre, stirring up dust, and generating heat.
– Duncan Waldron
KellyPawlak11 months ago

Looks like a Fourier Transform of the dirac delta function in R squared space, which is the physicist’s screw driver for going backwards in time. What class was this? Or was is his research? Do you happen to know?
You’re better informed than I am, Kelly – I wouldn’t know a Fourier Transform from a Ford Transit! This was a situation where I had to provide a photo of a scientist, so asked Alan to oblige, with a handy PhD student. I just asked him to scribble something interesting on the whiteboard; I guess it was in some way associated with his research or teaching.
– Duncan Waldron

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