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Re: Has bad mathematics lead to engineering disasters?

Subject: Re: Has bad mathematics lead to engineering disasters?
From: "Ioannis"
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 00:59:14 +0200
Newsgroups: sci.math
"Michael Press" <jack@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:jack-3DAA6E.14374106122006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[snip]

> From Catastrophe_Theory_and_its_Applications [1]
> "For an analysis of the stiffened plate, in which
[snip]

I can already envision it: Very loud banging and crashing noises are heard
inside university room E304. An unsuspecting passerby student asks another
student: "What the heck is going on in there?" and the other student replies:
"Oh, that's professor Klein teaching Catastrophe Theory and its
Applications..."

:-P

> [1] Poston and Stewart, 1978. Pitman.
[snip]

> -- 
> Michael Press
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Ioannis
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