Difficult part: for the most part, the reading seemed fairly straightforward, especially since I've already had differential equations. That said, I'm not sure where the constants in equations (1), (2), and (3) in Cayrel et al. come from.
Reflective part:
This seems somewhat different from what we've done thus far, in that the underlying math is not terribly complicated, but the scientific principles from which the math is derived are fairly involved and, in the case of Cayrel et al., comprise the bulk of the paper (contrast to the phyllotaxis paper, which focused almost exclusively on the math, while hand-waving the science). Cayrel et al. seems fairly obtuse, but much of the difficulty comes from astrophysics, rather than the math.
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