I'm doing 6 things
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4 years ago
Isn’t she lovely? Where is the gearshift? Where is the ignition key? Missing? No.
Attila Vágvölgyi's Life List
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1. get married
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2. Buy a Toyota Prius
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3. Buy a House
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4. get my doctorate
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5. start a scholarship fund
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6. work because I like to, not because I have to
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May 2006 is the time
4 years ago
I have a lovely fiancee. We are engaged for 2 years now. We have a lot of ideas, we would like to invite our friends to a nice place in a Hungarian hill called Börzsöny. We save the money for it.
Having my PhD about computers and physics
4 years ago
Do you know PDEs? FEM? FIT? Differential Geometry? Alain Bossavit?
Your children will know them™.
Computers changed so many areas in science. We can now design things, making virtual prototypes using CAD systems. We do not form devices to make analytical calculations easier, but we make numerical calculations to be able to give devices any form.
Think for a moment! How many cars have you seen that had a reflector not shaped like a paraboloid 15 years ago (You know, round lamps behind some nice prisms)? Do you see any now?
Surprise! Eucledian space, differential equations are not quite good for numerical calculations. The whole CAD thing is hard, because we form our equations based on mathematics used for analytical calculations. Vectors, tensors are not the right thing. Period.
I would like to make teaching physics easier with using differential geometry. I would like to build a consistent system from elementary physics to engineers designing maglev trains.
