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Written by brettwitty on 2024-08-29 at 06:57

I got a reminder today of often how infuriating it is to have a physicist try to explain mathematics. They inevitably ruin the notation, and if you ask them a "why?" question they respond with an answer to "how?" Both practical and impractical in one fell swoop.

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Written by Victor Gijsbers on 2024-08-29 at 08:36

@brettwitty But do you know how infuriating it is as a physicist when a mathematician explains mathematics to you!? I remember being at a mixed physics/maths class (90% math students though) where the teacher said "so now we know that the answer is x - x, but we still have to show that this is zero." I believe no physics students showed up anymore after that. 😂

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Written by brettwitty on 2024-08-29 at 09:05

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This is true. Although knowing physicists, x was probably infinity. 😜

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