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tomcorrigan 37 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]

Sure; if you define the quality of a problem by reference to your ability to solve it.

In the real world the quality of these esoteric problems is typically gauged by the difficulty of solving them.

tgma 36 days ago [–]

> In the real world the quality of these esoteric problems is typically gauged by the difficulty of solving them.

I don't believe that's strictly true. Way oversimplified projection on one axis.

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