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removing Euler and adjacent chapters #923

Closed leios closed 2 years ago

leios commented 2 years ago

After revisiting some older chapters, I have decided to remove the Euler chapter. This is because of the following reasons:

  1. The chapter was not technically wrong, but it was very misleading as to how people truly implement Euer methods i practice. I think starting from the Taylor series makes sense from a physical point of view, but not mathematically
  2. The code basically had the derivative hard-coded in, which is not how people often implement this.

I could re-work the chapter to keep the code, but I would need another chapter to link it to RK, Bakcwards Euler, or other methods. I think a full re-work is needed and is on the table in a few weeks when I am working on my next project (which will involve RK).

ntindle commented 2 years ago

I would prefer not to delete this. I would rather unlink it on the site so that we may be able to use it later

Thoughts?

leios commented 2 years ago

Sure, that's also fine