I was surprised to find that neither numpy nor scipy was available for SUSE 9.3 x86_64 via YAST (yes, 9.3 is way old but when everything is working just fine, I’m not screwing things up by upgrading). So I attempt (and eventually succeed) to build these two packages.
Pre-requisites:
Scipy
Numpy
BLAS/LAPACK (I used the ATLAS library)
Fortran compiler (I [...]
Structural optimization has been an active field of research for many years. With the advent of finite element analysis methods, the promise of structural optimization became even brighter, especially in weight sensitive structures such as aerospace vehicles. The initial focus of the methods was on gradient methods in which the derivatives of the response WRT [...]
Those who have followed Andrew Wiles’ proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem know of the initial excitement, and the deflation after a crucial error was discovered, followed by the footnote that he had fixed the problem in the proof and had indeed proved that no solution exists. This video (45 min) is a remarkable tour of [...]
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