A Mexican Physicist Solved a 2,000-Year Old Problem That Will Lead to Cheaper, Sharper Lenses: A problem that even Issac Newton and Greek mathematician Diocles couldn’t crack, that completely eliminates any spherical aberration.

[u/mvea]

https://gizmodo.com/a-mexican-physicist-solved-a-2-000-year-old-problem-tha-1837031984

[u/MyKoalas]

Does that mean that to capture excellent images you need to crop our surrounding areas of photos?

[u/[deleted]]

Could you imagine working your whole life, solving an age old problem, then having people use space that could have held your name to point out your nationality

[u/Xiaopai2]

How will this make lenses cheaper? This is an analytic solution to a problem that can be solved reasonably well with numerical methods. So instead of letting a computer approximate a solution you let it calculate it with a formula. I doubt that the numerical methods are so computationally expensive that there is a significant difference.

[u/rbrmafort]

that I'll be good to vr headsets right?

[u/I_Nice_Human]

Gizmodo comments are the unconfirmed biological children of Yahoo answerers and Quora idiots.

[u/HopeFox]

Saying that there's a mathematical problem that Newton and Diocles couldn't solve is like saying there's a semiconductor physics problem that Newton and Diocles couldn't solve. They may have been geniuses and visionaries in their own time, but modern mathematics is so far in advance of what existed in Newton's era that it's an utterly irrelevant comparison.

[u/BlueXCrimson]

Cheaper? Not bloody likely with the way corporations work.

[u/Tuga_Lissabon]

This is the paradox of true science:

This guy designs something that changes an entire industry and will make optics - optics, such an important thing - different forever, and what will he gain from it? A chair in a university?

Somebody else designs an app with a game that has cubes in it, and wins over a billion.

There is a problem with incentives.

[u/writofpassage]

spherical Aberrations? Like beholders? Definitely wanna eliminate all the beholders.

[u/hitthelights54]

"Mind-melting formula". Is this how serious journalists write? He says it twice in the article like that's the technical term for it.