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– Mathematicians I know trying to justify their work well knowing that it has no applications
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Jeredin@lemm.ee 8 months ago
“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
anzich@feddit.de 8 months ago
Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Idk man I’ve seen mathematicians at my university shudder at applied math and they were kind of half joking and half not.
Bouchtroubouli@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Mathematician be like:
Hey engineer ! What if we kissed at the intersection of two parallel lines ?? 😳
Haha just kiding…
Unless … ? 👉👈
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 8 months ago
On the other hand, physicists who think a correct mathematical result proves anything, despite the logic behind being flawed, are the real issue.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 8 months ago
I 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 was one of them, who considered mathematics and 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.
mcc@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
ChatGPT suggested G.H.Hardy.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 8 months ago
It could be but I don’t remember if they talked about Ramanujam on his bio, and pretty sure that why he’s most famous for.
mcc@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
He said this: I have never done anything “useful”. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.