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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (7 children)

I need someone with a bigger brain to explain this to me

[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

my guess is the comic is about Pontyragin's maximum principle, a theorem in control theory. He was a blind Russian mathemematician and his mother helped him learn maths by reading books to him. He developed control theory for an application on optimizing rocket speeds or maybe logistic trains or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Can you do what you just did, but for "control theory". Pretty pretty please with a cherry on top?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think control theory, after reading the Wikipedia first paragraph, is using doing math to calculate how to consistently do a thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Fucking nailed it. My favorite application of it is to brew espresso at exactly the right temperature.

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