The Lions' Pride

What the hell is a "Hamiltonian System"?

Sent to a friend whom is a math professor. Hopefully he can tell me what it means. I love PSU but graduated from Slippery Rock, so needless to say, I have no idea.

Cultural Problem? I now get it...99.9% of the world has no idea what any of this means so yes, we have a culture problem. But thanks to people like John who do and can create, develop and implement their actions we all live better lives for it..

John, thank you for your time your energy and your dedication to your future profession that make my life and all others better.

Got a response from my friend the math professor. " He is studying classical Hamiltonian mechanics in a pretty specific three body problem. This is the kind of thing that Calculus was invented for according to Newton."
Don't know about the rest of you guys on the board, but it cleared it up for me.

It's Hamilton Lion's thought process - from another universe and under scientific scrutiny. JK - couldn't resist.

Shoot. Read the abstract, looked up a couple things on wikipedia and thought I had a good general picture of what was going on.

Started reading the paper...no chance. Mathematics was always too abstract for me. Good grief.

I'm an engineering graduate student, so thought I could get through a little bit.

I've got a few friends who were math graduate students and are now professors. I've found that mathematicians always find the most complex way to say/describe something.

I was a bit of a math whiz as a child and basically rebelled because I did not enjoy being around other math whizzes, regardless of age. It's definitely a unique culture.

... if Will Hunting were 6-3, 300