How unusual is it for a 3-yr-old to solve partial differential equations?

[Rabrrrrrr]

We were talking about three-dimensional wave propagation through a medium the other day, and he was trying to communicate something, so I gave him a pencil and paper and he wrote down the following:



and then I realized, oh, you're talking about propgation through an isotropic homogenous inelastic system, and he said, "yes".

[tjwmason]

1. I think he needs some remedial help there.

He's obviously falling behind his class-mates, that's more what I'd expect from a two year-old.

[NewJeffCT]

9. I know, my almost 3 year old has been doing that

for a while now.

[Orsino]

2. Partial? Typical.

Three-year-olds just don't have the attention span to finish.

[underpants]

3. Late bloomer?

Our 6 month old does that in her sleep.

:bounce:

[Richardo]

4. Whassa matter? He can't solve *complete* differential equations?

:crazy:

[pointblank]

25. I dont know about you Richardo

but my BEAGLES could solve that equation!

[Richardo]

26. ...with their eyes closed, as it appears thay are.

:hi: pointblank!

[texas1928]

5. Pretty good...

Ours just lays on the floor and stares at the ceiling fan.

Sigh

[mikeytherat]

6. I didn't get into "Diffy-Qs" until I was four; at age three it was more

statics and dynamics (ya know, there's lots of shear and beam stress for a three-year-old to determine).

mikey_the_rat

[Rabrrrrrr]

31. I'm sorry to hear of your developmental disability

That must have been sad, and frustrating, still doing statics when your peers were doing wave propogation.

I feel for you. I imagine you weren't doing vector calculus until Kindergarten.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

7. Ouch

You just gave me an awful flashback to my Junior year of college.

[HughBeaumont]

8. I spoke 96 languages by my 4th year.

I realize by that age, most families nowadays have their kids up to at least 229 different languages and their subsequent pidgins, but for 1973, that was SOME accomplishment!!1!

:silly:

[0007]

10. Wow! what a coincidence do you remember our conversation

in Moscow? You were so jealous that I had mastered one more than you, at an earlier age.

[HughBeaumont]

14. Those damned Book of the Dead translations

prevented me from LEARNING Tok Pisin in time for that particular convention! I only have 24 hours in a DAY, DAMN IT!

:cry:

[Rabrrrrrr]

33. Oh, you're still locked into this timestream with a 24 hour day?

I superceded that time problem when I was four, and have been working variably in anywhere from 30 to 400 hour days, depending on my needs, and, of course, lepton tesseract density, but everyone who knows time would understand that already.

[calico1]

11. I used to to that kind of thing all the time

when I was 3. And I was the dumb one. :silly:

[DBoon]

12. my dog can find the prime factors of very large numbers

he wags his tail once.

"one" is a prime factor of every number.

He always gets this one right.

I think he has a brilliant career ahead of him at the NSA.

[HughBeaumont]

15. Or at the BDA

It's a man's life at the British Dental Association.

[LaraMN]

13. That's unacceptable.

You need to start whipping him to produce better results.

[DS1]

16. I was tapping that in morse on the inside of my mother's womb

:shrug:

[Nye Bevan]

17. My 5 year old is not that bright

When we play chess I win at least 70% of the time.

[SOteric]

18. Oh Phurphoo. By 3, I was doing particle physics and writing

treatise on the nature of spacetime.

I'd mastered Latin, Greek and Aramaic before I was even out of nappies.

[DS1]

20. Is that a Da Vinci, or a really good poo?

:D

:hide:

[SOteric]

21. And my first words were a lecture on Dada as an artistic trend.

Did I mention the Cantata and Fugue I wrote at 7 months?

[DS1]

22. heh, a dada joke

:D

I think Dada and a really satisfying poo are one and the same. I think I'll take a picture of the next one and call it "Reboot, oh world, grow wide and strong with my gift of nutrients"

[SOteric]

23. You do that. I'm thinking I'll call my next one:

Referees :hi:

[DS1]

24. Well in that case

I hope nobody rushes the passer :*

[Rabrrrrrr]

32. LOL!! That inspires me to do a great big brown painting

and call it "Super Bowl XL Referees" and smeer it with the feces of a thousand Seattleites, or whatever the hell you call yourselves nowadays.

[FuzzySlippers]

41. Slacker!!!

I composed my first symphony while still a zygote.

[Rabrrrrrr]

42. You started with Latin and Greek?

Pshaw! Why start with such late languages? I had proto-indo-european, as well as proto-niger-congo and proto-Dravidian down before I even took my first suckle.

[EstimatedProphet]

19. Is that all? At 3 I was chief programmer of the NASA computers.

[DS1]

27. That was 1936, and lightswitches don't count

Moran

[WritingIsMyReligion]

35. LOL!

:D

[WeRQ4U]

28. My first word was "Duck".

Granted, I didn't actually speak it. I sent the word telepathically to my mother's brain.

[entanglement]

29. Damn, I started writing a serious response to this post

before I realized...

[gizmo1979]

30. You are so wacked.

:think:

[4morewars]

34. Chuck Norris...

was solving them when he was a sperm !

[Rabrrrrrr]

36. Hah! Chuck Norris INVENTED the math when he was a sperm!

Even before he was a sperm, because Chuck Norris simply willed himself into being.

[DS1]

40. He had to find a way to track how many sperm he had to kill

so he'd be the only one going up the tubes.

this was before Chuck had the cognitive ability to recognize that he'd swim twice as fast as all the others in the first place

[WritingIsMyReligion]

37. I was really a late starter; only on trig at the age of three.

I still can't look my friends in the eye when we talk partial diffs...The shame is too much to bear. :cry:

I did write a fugue, though, at age 7 months. I called it, "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" It was very, very moving, if I may say so myself.

:D

[GoddessOfGuinness]

38. Mr GoG computed and applied them in the womb.

The afterbirth looked like this:

[Rabrrrrrr]

39. Hmph. It has all the symmetry of a newbie amateur. I am not impressed.

Anyone could do that in the womb.

Show me something interesting.