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Dirichlet Problem is a famous unsolved question, when in fact it was pretty well understood by the early twentieth century. Let's be real here: the current Knowledge article doesn't even mention the important contributions that great mathematicians including
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You also say, "I have to say that many of the news stories that have appeared seem to be poorly informed on the mathematics..." I fully concur! I think, however, that making the
Dirichlet problem clearer to the non-mathematical reader should be the goal here. I've always understood that Wiki is not a
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So far, it doesn't seem to have made "headlines" anywhere. An AP wire story is not a headline. I did a search on Google News, and the story has only appeared in the local
Southern California press and the business press, who carry these sorts of corporate-PR stories in the back pages routinely. I
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or application sense, is definitely notable in that it brought this highly refined mathematical topic to the headlines of many major news sources and blogs. For that reason I've reinstated a paragraph about this event, but linked it to the Forbes publishing of the AP lead on this article rather than
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Regarding the lack of mention of major mathemeticians, I agree -- this is a lack. But I don't think that merely because we (the Wiki community) haven't gotten around to doing this, is a reason to drop the
Viscardi's mention. Perhaps new section at the end, ==History==, and detail the input of the
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Washington Post (much less as a headline). And those stories give about the same amount of space to the other winners of the competition, a team that developed "computer technology that could help locate the genetic roots of some inherited
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Viscardi is a "super-duper mathematics student" (as one of the judges said about him), but there is absolutely nothing to indicate that he's done anything comparable to those historical figures. High school students win science competitions every
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Even more than that, we need some independent verification that this is an important contribution - original, correct, and a significant advance over the prior state of knowledge. If the young man gets his work published in a peer-reviewed journal, that would mean something. The judges of the
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As far as being not being major or being merely local, I'm nowhere near
Southern California -- yet I picked up the story enough to realize that the stub in Wiki was so sparse and complex, as to cry out for revision. Now, I routinely don't use Google, but other search engines. This is what I
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Thanks. One way the intro could be improved is to make it more clear that the term is ambigous. Historically it referred specifically to
Laplace's equation, and that is what the article mostly talks about, but nowadays it usally refers to the analogous problem for other classes of PDE.
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We really need a statement of what was proved, whether this was numerical analysis or a piece of pure mathematics (I expect the former) and so on. The emphasis on areas of application is something that makes anyone familiar with science journalism very suspicious.
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You say (please correct me if I err) that 1) the news story isn't as big as I think it is, just locally important or corporate, and 2) The current article is incomplete in that it doesn't mention various major mathemetiticians' work on the
Dirichlet
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Do you think it would be appropriate to mention the probabilistic solution to the
Dirichlet problem? I.e., u(z) = E, where B is Brownian motion and \tau_D is the exit time from the domain. If so, I'll create an account and suggest some text.
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