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Re:The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happi... by emmelaich on Sunday March 04, 2018 @04:07PM (#16516744)
Yes Mathematics is hard.

I don't think being good at juggling makes you any better at describing the dynamics of juggling, nor the physiological characteristics that enable it.

Regarding Feynman (comment below), yes it is very important not to fool yourself, but knowing mathematics well makes it easier not to fool yourself.

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Re:The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happi... by taeric on Sunday March 04, 2018 @04:13PM (#16516780)
But does it? Or is it just that the people you know that don't fool themselves happen to be good at math? :)

The juggling example was supposed to be an obvious example of people doing something that takes complicated math to analyze. I'm asserting it is not much different to many engineering jobs. Nor do I think that most physicists have a terribly strong intuition for math.

I confess to not having numbers to back this. :(

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