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Why can't mathematicians solve real life problems? 2016-10-07 14:53:24 Post No. 8397601
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Why can't mathematicians solve real life problems?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems
Only a handful of them may have practical implications.
Almost all the useful work is made in silence by physicists/mathematical physicists and engineers.
>By and large it is uniformly true that in mathematics there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment it becomes useful; and that this lapse can be anything from 30 to 100 years, in some cases even more; and that the whole system seems to function without any direction, without any reference to usefulness, and without any desire to do things which are useful.
Johann von Neumann
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>>8397601
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems
I meant to post this link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_mathematics.
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>he is bound by the real world
Don't bend, ascend!
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>>8397621
Off of this board with you pedophile cartoons.
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>>8397601
You said yourself that the practical problems are solved by engineers and physicists, so why would the mathematicians focus on those problems when there are other problems the physicists and engineers won't touch?
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>>8397647
>why would the mathematicians focus on those problems
To make something useful out of their lives.
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>>8397629
Take your baits away first. If it was the case that you are serious, then go find applications for the stuff.
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Mathematicians are just ahead of the curve. The things pure mathematicians worked on, such as complex numbers, euler's zeta function, etc... are all just now being employed by engineers and physicists.
The same is likely true for the mathematical work being done now. In the years to come physicists may start using "pure"mathematical structures from today.
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>>8397651
But those problems are (potentially) useful. They may not be useful during the lifetime of the mathematician but they're useful to people in the future.
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>>8397651
>To make something useful out of their lives.
Do musicans make "something useful out of their lives"?
Some people enjoy math and produce the content.
Sometimes there is even a practical spin-off.
Go somewhere else with your literally (literally) fascist attitude, telling people what they should work and how they should live their lives.
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>>8397693
In a way math is like internet memes. Pure math is 4chan, physics is ebaumsworld, and engineering is reddit.
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>>8397876
made me chuckle
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