Tunguz jokes: it's only real Navier-Stokes if it's from the Courant region

eigensteve · x · 2026-09-09

Tunguz riffs on the champagne-region meme for fluid dynamics: only work from the Courant school counts as real Navier-Stokes; everything else is "sparkling Euler equations". A classic academic joke riding the wave of the recent OpenAI Navier-Stokes proof buzz.

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