I don’t know what should be called calculations? I think that means finding out a value from some fancy mathematic framework. (Pure)Mathematicians build that framework, maybe engineers use it to find stuff
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someacnt_@lemmy.world 4 months agoSorry, but I’ve never seen engineers perform beautiful, artistics calculations - it was mostly to meet the end. Meanwhile, mathematicians do tons of them which are beautiful.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
someacnt_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
We pure mathematiciand do addition and multiplication all the time, it’s just that what it represents is like, identification of module of structure sheaf.
- Integration is just a summation, where limit is there to cover countablility!
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Inventing calculus is different from doing integration. Thats what i’m saying
someacnt_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Calculus is addition but over “measurable” domains, it is a rather natural generalization.
Though, mathematicians do care about whether the calculation “makes sense” - that is, they care about the rigor. Which is why it may seem they invented something wild.
CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is why I love comp sci. I hated math all through undergrad and only started to love it when I got much deeper into my career. I’m bad at calculations and find them tiring.
A beautiful, well written bit of code has a lot in common with a beautiful formula. And it has the huge advantage that the computer does all the tedious, error prone number crunching for me! That way I can focus just on the beauty of all the errors in my methodology, not my execution.
someacnt_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah, mathematicians often end up having to do bunch of messy calculations by hand, just to find nice patterns. I am envious computer scienctists can avoid that ;P