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Re:Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math by yread on Thursday September 05, 2024 @04:12PM (#41460031)
Physics faculty wants to buy a new expensive research machine. University rector is furious at all this spending and tries to talk some sense into them: "Why aren't you more like the mathematicians, they just need a paper a pencil and an eraser. Or like the philosophers, they just need a paper and pencil"

Or one more related to this article: Mathematicians waste time designing the topology of coats for people with 3 arms. Physicists find people like that

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Re:Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math by xanderlewis on Saturday September 07, 2024 @02:34AM (#41471927)
I had a lecturer (for a fairly advanced set theory course) who said he told his young son, when teaching him to count, that he, as a set the theorist, ‘doesn’t do finite’. I guess when his son got to school 1+2 might have been ‘the successor of 2’, but anything else would have been ‘less than omega’.
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