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I think it's incredibly disingenuous to call yourself a self-taught mathematician when you already have a masters in physics.
by colossal 7y ago
I think it's incredibly disingenuous to call yourself a self-taught mathematician when you already have a masters in physics.
- matz1 7y agoIt's not mathematics degree, fair enough.
- throwayEngineer 7y agoMath is being able to do logic with numbers. I've tried creating my own math as an engineer, it's possible, but I also know every attempt I've made failed at finding something new. My point is, we learned a lot about numbers in engineering school.
- colossal 7y agoYes but physics != engineering. You really need very minimal higher math to do engineering work. As far as I know, at my school the furthest engineers go is a course in vector calculus, ODES, baby linear algebra and simple probability. None of which would be really be considered higher math. In contrast, physics needs complex variables, Pdes and most students take at least a group theory class.
- throwayEngineer 7y agoIs there something about those topics that don't follow logic?
- cosmodisk 7y agoMath,queen and servant of science..
- Koshkin 7y agoUndergraduate physics gets by with surprisingly little, if any, advanced math, so it is only natural when one realizes how inadequate one's knowledge of math actually is.
- colossal 7y agoHave to disagree with this. I'm a math undergrad but a good chunk of my algebra class this semester was physics students. Additionally, the author said they have a graduate degree. As far as I know (which is not very far) modern physics makes considerable use of algebraic constructions such as tensors and lie algebras, so I'd imagine the author would be familiar with these concepts, which puts them lightyears ahead of any self-taught mathematician.