Wow, that's especially stupid because we use those maths in the more chemistry heavy side of biology – biomed can be like that though, more self important twats than the annual tory party conference.
Systems Engineering involves a whole lot of basic science in many areas, and yet I still find people trying to re-derive anything more complicated than Newton's Laws.
Yeah. "reinventing the wheel" has turned into "displays a shocking degree of ignorance about stuff that absolutely was necessary for *both* his degrees" with this one. And then? People cited him and started USING his "new method".
I hereby declare that the method of determining the length of one side of a right triangle from the squares of the lengths of the other two sides is "the Kadath Rule." Start citing me, bitchez.
Seriously, even if he'd forgotten high school math, did it not occur to him to look up whether determining the area under a curve was a solved problem?
Step 1: while doodling some lines on graph paper, he wondered whether, if you simplified sections of a curve as trapezoids, you'd get a rough estimate of the area under the line, did some back of the envelope calculations sums on a curve he could put through one of the computer programs that uses this technique already to determine the area under a line produced from a spectrograph reading and found that he got very similar results.
step 2: he checked for prior art he gathered all his colleagues in his department around to explain about his magnificent discovery.
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Date: 2010-12-06 04:54 am (UTC)Seriously, even if he'd forgotten high school math, did it not occur to him to look up whether determining the area under a curve was a solved problem?
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Date: 2010-12-06 05:09 pm (UTC)Step 1: while doodling some lines on graph paper, he wondered whether, if you simplified sections of a curve as trapezoids, you'd get a rough estimate of the area under the line, did some back of the envelope
calculationssums on a curve he could put through one of the computer programs that uses this technique already to determine the area under a line produced from a spectrograph reading and found that he got very similar results.step 2:
he checked for prior arthe gathered all his colleagues in his department around to explain about his magnificent discovery.step 3: he published.
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