re: #981 vxbush

Exactly. My dad, the engineer, just wanted to calculate stuff or graph it. Proving it was never an interest.

Well physicists are somewhere inbetween - we tend to love the math and approach it almost visually. However, well all know how physicist proofs tend to get viewed by the math world.

Then again we have different ultimate goals and it, I think, needs to be that way.

I mean to a mathematician, we tend to be like bulls in a china shop, just brushing away important details. To the physicist, those details don’t represent the system we are looking at.

More than once, physics has been hung up on a detail we didn’t think applied. The mathematicians correctly giggled at us.

But also, more than once, our crazy math has given the mathematicians something interesting to look at, because despite it’s impossibility, the calculations from it, reflected reality.

Feynman’s path integral formalism is the best example of that I know.