Engineer -> Physisist -> Mathematiction What's next?

[Buck_Godot]

A second vote for computer. If you can’t work out the answer formally solve it numerically or run a simulation. See for example the 4 color problem

[md2000]

There’s the story about how the different professions prove that all odd numbers are prime.

First, the Mathematician:
“1 is prime, 1+2=3 is prime, 3+2=5 which is prime, 5+2=7 which is prime…
Therefore by induction, all odd numbers are prime…!”

Then the Physicist:
“1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9… experimental error, 11 is prime; all odd numbers are prime!”

Then the Engineer:
“1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime, 11 is prime… All odd numbers are prime!”

Geez, it’s almost like this was a setup for this joke…

[Chronos]

I don’t know, I always heard that last one attributed to a business major.

[md2000]

@Chronos

I don’t know, I always heard that last one attributed to a business major.

I think the Business Major would say “Everyone knows prime is 1.25%”.

[standingwave]

@md2000

There’s the story about how the different professions prove that all odd numbers are prime.

A mathmatician, a physicist, and an engineer were all given a red rubber ball and told to find the volume.
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[li]The mathematician carefully measured the diameter and evaluated a triple integral.[/li][li]The physicist filled a beaker with water, put the ball in the water, and measured the total displacement.[/li][li]The engineer looked up the model and serial numbers in his red-rubber-ball table.[/li][/ul]

[SmartAlecCat]

@Quercus

I thought it was mathematician > another mathematician > Paul Erdos (If you’re lucky)

Or, alternately, it goes mathematician > another mathematician > another mathematician and on around until you need something actually done at which point you ask an engineer.

Well, you have to work through the mathematicians by their Erdős Number until you get to Paul Erdős.

[I’m a 4.]

[mrklutz]

@Sparky812

x=ky

That’s porn, not engineering.

[Malacandra]

@Derleth

Well, mathematics is a branch of logic, which is a branch of philosophy, which, ultimately, is a concern of language, so the English department is the highest mucky-muck of the intellectual fields and funding ought to reflect that.

(Alternately, logic is a branch of the formal grammars, which are an element of programming language design, so computer science is the most fundamental of the fundamental truth-seeking academic disciplines, and everything else is philately.)

Philately will get you anywhere.

[pancakes3]

@md2000

There’s the story about how the different professions prove that all odd numbers are prime.

First, the Mathematician:
“1 is prime, 1+2=3 is prime, 3+2=5 which is prime, 5+2=7 which is prime…
Therefore by induction, all odd numbers are prime…!”

Then the Physicist:
“1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9… experimental error, 11 is prime; all odd numbers are prime!”

Then the Engineer:
“1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime, 11 is prime… All odd numbers are prime!”

Geez, it’s almost like this was a setup for this joke…

i know it’s a joke but i just have to say 1 is definitely not prime.

[EinsteinsHund]

@Smeghead

Obligatory

Don’t miss the mouse over.

[Sparky812]

@mrklutz

That’s porn, not engineering.

No, but it is an intentional double entendre.

[Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party]

@Chronos

I don’t know, I always heard that last one attributed to a business major.

“Engineer’s induction” is a term of art in theoretical computer science.

Anyway, there’s a whole school of thought within CS that mathematics is just a branch of computer science, not the other way around.

[ultrafilter]

@Quercus

I thought it was mathematician > another mathematician > Paul Erdos (If you’re lucky)

You’d have to be pretty damn lucky these days.

[Kent_Clark]

Engineer -> Physicist -> Mathematician

>Ask your father

>Ask your mother

[Sparky812]

@kunilou

Engineer -> Physicist -> Mathematician

>Ask your father

>Ask your mother

Which always ilicits the same two responses.

> What did your mother say?

> What did your father say?

[BlinkingDuck]

What is 2+1…depends on who you ask:

Mathematician - 3. of course

Engineer - 3…but to be safe we’ll call it 27.

Statistician - between 2.95 and 3.05 with 95% confidence

Philosopher - what is a number anyway?

Real estate agent - a really, really spacious 3 - you could consider it a 5.

Market researcher - what do you want it to be?

[Thudlow_Boink]

@BlinkingDuck

What is 2+1…depends on who you ask:

Mathematician - 3. of course

“Of course”? I want to see a proof!