And since I know you're excited to know "ok but what math", well, here you go: The random walk on a one dimensional lattice with restraining barrier at the origin and absorbing barrier at N for the case where only steps of r units to the right and units to the left are allowed By Tom Lehrer et al
We discussed this in my random processes course. I never would have imagined this connection!
Cited to in that paper, a certain Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, and his paper "Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrizations of Infinitely Differentiable Remannian Manifolds" Of whom, and of which, he wrote the famous song en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobache...
this is the coolest thing i never heard of
(Unpublished)
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Weird Al has a degree in architecture that he's supposedly never used since his music career got going while he was still in college. Wild if after his death we find out actually he secretly designed some bridges or something.
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What an amazing life he lived! As he said: "Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it".
amazing. He was the best.
Love this
Plagiarize!!! I love It, I have several of his records. Though The Irish Song was my first contact with his (musical) work, courtesy of prof. Solvberg and colleagues with U. Trondheim. Thank you for leading me to T. Lehrer.
To be fair he stole that from a guy in Dnepropetrovsk
He did first passage statistics? What a guy.