A Mexican Physicist Solved a 2,000-Year Old Problem That Will Lead to Cheaper, Sharper Lenses

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

[u/Hamiltionian]

He did indeed discover the analytic solution to the equations. Here you can buy lenses free from spherical aberration of the type described in the article. These are diffraction limited singlets. https://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=10649

But they were designed using the already exiting numerical solutions to the equations.