Wednesday, March 05, 2008

A mathematician named Darren

Nice to see a mathematical breakthrough in modelling vortex dynamics headlined in the paper, albeit on page 25

It is wonderful to know that through purely mathematical imagination you can tell whether an unbuilt plane will fly

What I should like to know is if this extended formula can be used by town planners & architects to cut down on the problem of ground level winds caused by tall buildings. Which knock old ladies off their feet in city streets or near 1960s high rise flats built on the failed romantic picturesque ideal of towers in the park

And if the answer is yes, how do we ensure they start implementing it straight away

Link: Sonnet celebrating the elegance, ingenuity and sheer cerebral power of Darren Crowdy’s creative use of Schottky Groups to complete the Schwarz-Christoffel formula so that it works with irregular shapes and those with holes

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