/sci/ - Science & Math

>>7551116
Because I'm confident I'd be good enough at it to stand on top of all those 10 million normies mentioned in >>7551187

>tfw delusional

The Van Allen radiation belt certainly seems to muddy things up for the whole story. That being said, the blueprints of the lunar landing module were never released to the public.

Also, our government was the king of fabricating shit. Just look at the dummy tanks used in the Normandy landing. An entire regiment of inflatable Shermans tricked Nazi intelligence into thinking they were attacking from somewhere else.

ITT: /sci/ pretends to be /lit/--discussing quantum mechanics

>Too stupid to understand pure mathematics.
>Too retarded to make any contributions.

If the "essence" of science is to better understand how the world works, and use rigorous techniques to explain natural phenomenons, and if the "essence" of, say, history, is to learn the truth about the past and apply it to current events, then how would you describe the "essence" of mathematics?

What does it mean to "do mathematics"?
What does it mean to come up with a mathematical proof?
What exactly do mathematical proofs "prove"?
What goal or purpose do mathematicians strive for in their work?

I'm asking this because I have never really known mathematics outside of "learn these concepts, don't question them, apply them on the test" that happens in my math classes. Lately, I've been reading essays and articles by mathematicians trying to explain that this isn't really the point of math, but I don't seem to understand what they are talking about.
Could you guys help me understand what mathematics really "is"?

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>>6556005
>and which an advanced civilization is almost certain to still need to do (sky surveys for asteroid watch, for instance.)
you now imagine an "advanced" civilization of poets and scholars that live under the ice in Europa. They are self aware, and highly intelligent but know nothing of the electromagnetic spectrum and their entire "universe" ends at the ice sky shell above them.

Would grad school be necessary if I want to get into Bioinformatics?

>>6189368
A girl asked me yesterday whether I ever had sex. I told her that I´m a 23 year old virgin.

I´m the guy who doesn´t just get friendzoned but bestfriendzoned.

But we don´t pussy, right? We got our proofs, our math, our superiority! Logic, not love, right?

>>5972690
No, why do you think so?

>>5876015
>memorize
Sir, do you have a moment to talk about biology? You might be interested.