Timeline for Examples of using physical intuition to solve math problems
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| Sep 21, 2023 at 10:27 | comment | added | Tadashi | Thermodynamics has also been used to produce a proof that $e^\pi > \pi^e$ | |
| Oct 2, 2020 at 6:24 | comment | added | Georges Elencwajg | Ah, thanks for pointing out this idiomatic meaning, dear @Timothy, I didn't know it. | |
| Oct 1, 2020 at 22:38 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @GeorgesElencwajg : I see what you did there is an idiomatic expression. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 17:17 | comment | added | PrimeRibeyeDeal | @user45220 *icy what you did there. | |
| Jun 23, 2017 at 7:22 | comment | added | Duchamp Gérard H. E. | Shouldn't you conclude $ T\geq G $ instead (of $ T > G $) in case the temperatures are equal ? | |
| Jun 22, 2017 at 17:23 | history | edited | Steven Landsburg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 29, 2015 at 20:10 | comment | added | Georges Elencwajg | Dear @user45220: of course my comment was deliberately meant as a humorous word play and I'm happy that many users (like obviously you!) got the joke and upvoted it. | |
| Sep 29, 2015 at 19:59 | comment | added | user45220 | @GeorgesElencwajg: Hint: Warmest congratulations and first and second laws of thermodynamics | |
| Sep 29, 2015 at 19:58 | comment | added | user45220 | @GeorgesElencwajg: Why do you think your comment got so many upvotes? ;) | |
| Sep 29, 2015 at 19:10 | comment | added | Georges Elencwajg | @user45220: sorry, I'm afraid I don't understand your comment. | |
| Sep 29, 2015 at 18:37 | comment | added | user45220 | @GeorgesElencwajg: I see what you did there | |
| Sep 14, 2014 at 0:46 | history | edited | Tadashi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 8, 2011 at 2:38 | comment | added | Phil Isett | Does this argument basically say conversely that the first law of thermodynamics conversely boils down to the same kind of convexity as in the arithmetic-geometric mean? | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 13:10 | comment | added | Georges Elencwajg | Warmest congratulations for this cool example. | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 2:09 | history | answered | Steven Landsburg | CC BY-SA 2.5 |