From a Stokes portrait at Cambridge to an OpenAI Navier-Stokes Netflix drama
satnam6502 · x · 2026-09-09
The author recalls having lunch at Pembroke College, Cambridge, beneath a painting of Stokes, and marvels that mathematics is suddenly dominating his social feeds—joking about a future Netflix mini-series dramatizing the Navier-Stokes OpenAI controversy.
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