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Re:I received my first donation on my open-source side project by catears on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:21PM (#25753887)

I can't remember which TV-series I saw it in, some kind of murder or "who dun' it?" show. But I remember that they had a pretty genuine and true role for a mathematician in that episode.

The mathematician was tasked with calculating the areas of manhattan that would be hit during stormy weather and give a rough estimation of the required drainage for the water to seep away.

That's the rough details, can't remember exactly. However, it always struck me as a job where the "mathematician as a job" fit really well.

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Re:I received my first donation on my open-source side project by bigiain on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @08:23PM (#25756737)

Not sure I agree. That task was "quantity surveying, estimating, and arithmetic" not mathematics.

A mathematician would have proved for all cities and terrain topologies there's a critical viscosity of liquid above which it is impossible to effectively drain them, along with an estimate of the lower bound of that viscosity.

<grin>

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