Determined to give Mary a different life, Frank sends the young girl to a traditional elementary school.
However, Mary’s teacher quickly realizes her pupil’s promise as a mathematician.
Unlike Frank,Evelyn believes it is Mary’s responsibility to dedicate herself to math.
As a result, understanding the Navier-Stokes problem’s status in the real world beyondGiftedis of central importance.
At the time, these complex mathematical problems were deemed unsolvable.
For example, the equations are useful in modeling ocean currents or the weather.
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Even though the Navier-Stokes equations are widely used, they often factor in turbulence physics' greatest unsolved problem.
As a result, the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem remains one of the field’s seemingly impenetrable quandaries.
However, the Clay Mathematics Institute still lists it as “unsolved.”
Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.
(Fluids behave differently depending on the space they inhabit, for example.
)There’s nothing necessarily constant about the Navier-Stokes problem and there’s no one right, end-all solution.
That said, CMI wanted mathematicians to prove something more broadly about the Navier-Stokes' existence and smoothness.
That said, it’s even more complicated than whatChris Evans' underrated drama,Gifted, reveals.
