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This is the kind of thing I really love reading. It’s ostensibly about a technical subject, but that’s really a jumping-off point for examining how we think and
by draw_down 8y ago
This is the kind of thing I really love reading. It’s ostensibly about a technical subject, but that’s really a jumping-off point for examining how we think and talk about things, how portions of our field become Balkanized, how what we encounter shapes our sense of what’s possible and ultimately hardens into “common knowledge”.
- scarejunba 8y agoReminded me of the reaction to this paper in Medicine https://doi.org/10.2337/diacare.17.2.152 https://doi.org/10.2337/diacare.17.2.152 It's just rudimentary integration approximation to a mathematics undergraduate but to those in Medicine unfamiliar with it, it was an achievement.
- hmijail 8y agoThat sounds really interesting. Can you point to any of those reactions?
- scarejunba 8y agoWhen it was discovered by the Mathematics community it was met with bemusement. Sorry, I'm recalling from memory here from years ago when I was a graduate student in Mathematics and don't have ready posts. Meanwhile, it accumulated 300 citations in medicine and chem https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C4&q=A+Mathematical+Model+for+the+Determination+of+Total+Area+Under+Glucose+Tolerance+and+Other+Metabolic+Curves&btnG= https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C4&q=A+Ma...
- girvo 8y agoI learned that integration approximation method in high-school. I’d love to see the responses too!