Differentialekvationer I - SF1633 (HT19)

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• No pain, no gain: "The fact is, if you are thinking about a PhD program in economics, you are advised to take math courses until it hurts."
• Apparently it's biology's magic number. See further hacker news discussion.
• What Would You Do With Your Own Google?
• According to the Economist, TAKING more maths in school can make you richer. In swedish: Matematikstudier ger 30 procent högre lön.
• Save $700 million by not having Sleipner drown.
  • When the first model sank in August 1991, the crash caused a seismic event registering 3.0 on the Richter scale, and left nothing but a pile of debris at 220m of depth. The failure involved a total economic loss of about $700 million. It was found to be the result of inaccurate finite element analysis.
• Build quasisymmetric fusion reactors.
• To stay upwind. By the way, Paul Graham also has some interesting essays on startups.
• Get rich: First way. Second way.
• Gian-Carlo Rota's Lesson 10: Alumni who return to visit [MIT] invariably complain of not having taken enough math courses while they were undergraduates
• Since it is so unreasonably effective.

• Mer teoretisk bok.
• The 25 billion dollar eigenvector - hur fungerar google egentligen?
• Super crunchers
  • "[Ayres's] thesis is provocative: Complex statistical models could be used to market products more intelligently, craft better movies, and solve health-care problems—if only we could get past our statistics phobia."
  • "A lively and yet rigorously careful account of the use of quantitative methods for analysis and decision-making…. Both social scientists and businessmen can profit from this book, while enjoying themselves in the process."—Dr. Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Prize winning economist.
• The Undercover Economist
• Freakonomics
• Fooled by randomness
  • "For Nero swears that no other lawful profession in our times could be as devoid of boredom as that of the trader. Furthermore, although he has not yet practiced the profession of high-sea piracy, he is now convinced that even that occupation would present more dull moments than that of the trader."
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street
• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk