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42 sats \ 5 replies \ @swami OP 9 Jun 2024
Crazy stuff...
"All mathematics is divided into three parts:
cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like)
hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic submarines)
celestial mechanics (financed by military and other institutions dealing with missiles, such as NASA).
Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.
Hydrodynamics procreated complex analysis, partial differential equations, Lie groups and algebra theory, cohomology theory and scientific computing.
Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.
The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation)."
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @TNStacker 9 Jun 2024
Goddamn!
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21 sats \ 3 replies \ @swami OP 9 Jun 2024
What do you think about it?
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @TNStacker 9 Jun 2024
I'm surprised to see it in an academic paper. But it is the way it is.
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151 sats \ 0 replies \ @swami OP 9 Jun 2024
Reminds me of this comic: https://xkcd.com/435/
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 9 Jun 2024
Just because they published it doesnt make it 100% true.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @IamSINGLE 9 Jun 2024
It's neither. It's just another boring and cruel subject where you need to remember a lot of formulas!!
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Coinsreporter 9 Jun 2024
Mathematics??? What is that??
It was something that I've been ignoring and as now I'm a teacher of English, whenever confronted about maths, my reply is that ""Maths is a language"'
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Akg10s33 9 Jun 2024
Well if we think about it, it is a language and many people like engineers and people like that... use mathematics daily and at all times... and there are people who love to do the math, even at home π
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @swami OP 9 Jun 2024
The language of the universe
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @6l 9 Jun 2024
Let's say rather that mathematics is a type of art like literature and other forms of codification of thought. For example, in the 18th century you have in your hands the novel "Faust" by Goethe and you don't know German, it is as if you had "Principia Mathematica." by Newton in the 17th century, if you do not master the respective codes/languages ββto decipher what they say you would not be able to take advantage of the knowledge presented.
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Satosora 9 Jun 2024
My brother was a mathematician.
They think very differently.
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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @swami OP 9 Jun 2024
How so?
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Satosora 9 Jun 2024
Their minds are so linear, so awkward.
Spend some time with one, you will understand.
They are a bit abnormal. lol
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 9 Jun 2024
Can confirm
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 10 Jun 2024
I shouldnt say weird.
They are just different, if you get those kind of people its not bad.
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