what the FUCK are differential equations

>>16734517 (OP)
Equations involving differential operators.

>>16734517 (OP)
the first time you encounter them, it might throw you for a loop that their solutions are functions, not just a number

>>16734517 (OP)
It’s this meme.
>I don’t understand them. They’re too complicated.
>They’re just equations with funny symbols, nothing special.
>I don’t understand them. You need three separate PhDs in functional analysis, algebraic topology, and Lie theory to even begin understanding linear differential equations. And we have no idea how to solve non-linear ones. Chaos theory proved to be garbage, numerical methods aren’t very enlightening, and proving uniqueness and existence for just one class of non-linear diffeqs is a Millennium Prize problem.

>>16734517 (OP)
Imaginary bs nerds keep masturbating to. It's like astrology or numerology which has no real world applications or evidence to exist yet they are interesting to do, like crosswords

>>16734568
nigger, physics is a pile of PDEs

>>16734571
Yes and maths is full of crackpots writing down numbers and thinking they are working.

>>16734517 (OP)
A smooth criminal