Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Why 5/3 is a fundamental constant for turbulence" video.

  1. At 6:45: Kolmogorov was very much not a 19th-century mathematician. He lived 1903-98 and his career spans, exemplifies, and affected both modern hyper-industrialism and the triumphs and disasters of the Soviet experiment and its failure. One of the key events of the 20th century. There are many good Kolmogorov stories around, but my favourite is the one, perhaps apocryphal, about steel industries. At one point in the 1940s, when he was working on linear programming, he conjured up a model for a steel industry. Some Russian bureaucrat is supposed to have looked at it admiringly, with an air of Yess, Kamerade, ve vill adopt zis right away, but asked "But what is this vector over here." "Those, Comrade Director, are the prices," said Kolmogorov.
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