Plane turned around, passenger interrogated because... he was doing differential equations while olive-skinned.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/05/07/ivy-league-economist-interrogated-for-doing-math-on-american-airlines-flight/ …
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@zeynep This incident shows that even for#mathematics, the language of the universe, people are scared of things they don't understand. -
@zeynep to get geeky, DEs do deal with rates of CHANGE. And integration ∫
. And there's no single "solution." So, [d
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scary, right?
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@zeynep Arabic. Math. It’s all Greek to me! -
@thegrugq The guy was Italian, so I assume Greeks (and Turks) also qualify under no math while flying. Unless it's trigonometry. That's ok. - Show replies
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Movie: hero travels back in time to ensure nobody who works on Black-Scholes equation can fly, no insane derivatives, no financial crisis.
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Inspired by: https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/728990870578597888 … If economists could not work on differential equations, maybe no Lehman crisis, no Trump nomination?
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