/sci/ - Science & Math

>>7389355
jesus christ I'm never leaving my house again

Epicycles!

>mfw homework problem contradicts itself and there are several possible things the professor may have ACTUALLY meant

Exactly OP.

This has been on my mind for so many years now. and it absolutely SHOCKS me how few people think about that, and how almost nobody I explain it to sees the picture.

I think the problem is everyone just looks at the money. We think as long as money is good then there aren't problems, and if we have economic problems we just have to get "smart" people to think of ways to get money circulating again.
But they don't realize that it's the RESOURCES that are important, if we could measure the circulation of money it would be a direct measure of the amount of resources being drained:
<div class="math">\nabla\times money=-\frac{d Resources}{dt}</div>

It's a joke, I couldn't resist :p
But seriously though, our economic models could probably use something like that.

>Accepted to grad school at a different university than undergrad
>Doing new research over the summer there
>Still working on research with a professor from undergrad university

>Old advisor misunderstands a result
>Sent a draft of the research paper to me
>too busy with new research to look through it
>He submits it to the referee with this error which completely changes the result of the paper.

>Going to have to tell him that the responses he just gave to referee questions and the new sections in the paper say the complete opposite of what they should.

I'm kind of panicking. Has anything like this ever happened to anyone? It hasn't been published yet but it's still going to look bad no?
I feel like an idiot for not checking the draft version he sent me more thoroughly, I just didn't have time, and I was sure he knew what to put, he's very smart, I think I just did a terrible job of explaining the result in my email and he got the wrong idea.

/sci/borgs, got any book that can help me with research in general?
Book, website, etc.