fishing for math
fishing for math
“Oh look at my beautiful math, it’s only meant to be looked at and not used to explain or discover anything.”
- No mathematician I know
74I was studying discrete mathematics with a book that had mini biographies of the mathematicians that worked on wharever was being explain on that section. And it had one of them, who considered mathematics an art at the same level as painting or sculpting and hated that mathematicians "lower" themselves to do math that were "useful", like nobody expects the same "useful results" from the art department. This guy worked really hard to only research on pure mathematics and the most "useless" branch of it, number theory. Eventually, his work helped build the necessary mathematics background to make encryption a thing, and now the entire society use his research. It's a shame I can't remember the name of the guy.
32This may have applications to "obscure physics topic"
-- Mathematicians I know trying to justify their work well knowing that it has no applications
6Idk man I've seen mathematicians at my university shudder at applied math and they were kind of half joking and half not. Not all of the faculty were like that though, some of them had a wide range of interests! My favourite was a wonderful Polish professor named Edward who knew tons of things about not just math but also computer science, physics, and chemistry.
4Mathematician be like:
Hey engineer ! What if we kissed at the intersection of two parallel lines ?? 😳
Haha just kiding....
Unless ... ? 👉👈
1On the other hand, physicists who think a correct mathematical result proves anything, despite the logic behind being flawed, are the real issue.
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50Extended version 1 (legible): http://i.imgur.com/WVGF9.jpg
Arranged by complexity: http://i.imgur.com/hDa0P5M.png
Extendend version 2: https://i.imgur.com/POrlDF4.png
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Mathematics is the only branch of science that will continue long after the universe ends.:-)
0Math is literally made up. There is no physical basis for math. Math is just another language used to describe things. The universe doesn't care whether there's "2 particles" or "1 particle and another particle" or "1 particle + 1 particle". It doesn't make these distinctions. Math only exists as long as there is an intelligent species which uses it. If there are no intelligent brains capable of using math and with a knowledge that it exists, math stops existing.
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As an engineer, we would be fishing from the black cat's bucket
39As a manager, I would ask you to file a Jira ticket first.
10Hey, I raised a ticket
It just went through the board into done within 5s of me creating it...
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Archimedes constant for pi is good enough to get to the moon. Send it.
3Not with a rod. But with a hairdryer.
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I always say this to annoy my math and science friends
Engineers live in the real world
Scientists live in the ideal world
And mathematicians..... live in their own world
26this is exactly why i like math. i get to play pretend in my own little world
5Engineers live in the real world
Yeah, that cat is definitely a cylinder
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I feel like the raccoon needs to be handing off "his" fish to an engineer to gut and scale and fillet for him.
6Minecraft players
1Newton 🗿
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