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UPenn Professor Solving DiffEQ on Scratchpad Causes Plane to Return to Gate

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday May 08 2016, @11:49PM   
from the I-can't-solve-DiffEq-with-a-computer dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

This just in from the front lines of the War on the Unusual:

University of Pennsylvania economics professor Guido Menzio was solving a set of differential equations on a plane departing the Philadelphia airport when the woman next to him surreptitiously passed a note to a flight attendant telling them she thought he was a terrorist because of the strange things he was writing on a pad of paper. The plane returned to the gate where he was questioned. At least this time the pilot had enough sense not to kick him off the flight.

Remember folks, if you see something say something!

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Original Submission

• Diff EQ is Truly a Greater Threat than Al Qaeda: Diff EQ is Truly a Greater Threat than Al Qaeda: (Score: 3, Funny) by Hartree on Monday May 09 2016, @02:29AM

  by Hartree (195) on Monday May 09 2016, @02:29AM (#343406)

  Ok, smartypants. Tell me what weapon of mass destruction doesn't involve differential equations?

  From biologicals with the growth equation, to fluid dynamics for chemical agent spread to modeling neutron multiplication in atomic bombs. It's all derived via differential equations.

  These mathematical people are gonna kill us all, I tell ya! ;)

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• Re:Diff EQ is Truly a Greater Threat than Al Qaeda (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 09 2016, @06:07AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 09 2016, @06:07AM (#343465)

  Social Justice.

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