Fitting an Elephant with Four non-Zero Parameters
History and Overview
2024-07-12 v1
Abstract
In 1953, Enrico Fermi criticized Dyson's model by quoting Johnny von Neumann: "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." So far, there have been several attempts to fit an elephant using four parameters, but as the problem has not been well-defined, the current methods do not completely satisfy the requirements. This paper defines the problem and presents an attempt.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2407.07909,
title = {Fitting an Elephant with Four non-Zero Parameters},
author = {Dian Jin and Junze Yuan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.07909},
year = {2024}
}