Category: First Order Differential Equations

To Love or Not to Love

06/05/2010

Wafa Veljee's Mathematical Biology-inspired article on the differential equations which can be used to model the love between Romeo and Juliet, or any two other arbitrary entities, is now up in the new Mathematics section of the Work tab.

"Friendly advice from a Math major with a non-existent love life: here we ask you to disregard all the movie dialogues which imply that love increases every day. Love might increase everyday but it will probably give rise to an unstable fixed point. An unstable fixed point is like a hill-top..."

Navigate to here to read more. Since there is no comment option in the Work section, comments are welcome on this post.

The next addition to the Work section is Ali Raza's essay on Chaos Theory and Lorentz Systems. It will go up in the Physics tab very soon.

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