/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12215018
>How are humanities more based and scientific than /sci/?
Because being smart in terms of creating theoretical physics and having the stamina of doing calculations is a very different activity than meta-systems thinking of philosophy.
This of course also goes for STEM fields like mathematics which are even more boxed and concerned with logical consistency than physics is.

Being able to come up with Thermodynamics or Sheaf theory is a different pursuit than writing prose like Nietzsche and Hegel that influences the 100 years after you by sheer ideological turning of minds.

>>10900773
you must be me, except for the Wikipedia article writing.

>>8859005
now we wait

I was a political science prof. until I killed myself a few hours ago

https://willopines.wordpress.com/

I found a matrix representation of the Octonions.
Where should I publish this?

>Where you are from
LONDON
>Your major
Mathematics
>Do you have a job
I got a few position lined up for me, still have to pick what I want
>How much do you earn
about 300k
>What do you do
bossing people around
>Do you even like what you studied? Would you switch to something else?
I should have learned SGA throughout, instead I fucked freshmen girls for 8 years

>>8373247
>biochem is a mixture of biology and chemistry

gee, who knew?

Remember, there is physics and then there is stamp collecting. Choose wisely.

>>8333018

>a branch of mathematics that can be used as a universal language
Logics and Type theories can be used to express frameworks like set theory and cateogry, which are rich enough to incoorporate essnetially all of mathematics.
This is however not the full scope of natural language. A notion like
>I feel afraid to go to school tomorrow because Bobby is angry that I kissed his girlfriend at a party
is hard to express faithfully in mathematics. And if you take a reductionist approach and say
>well in the end it's all deterministic and if we take brain functions into account that give rise to notions like "shame" then we can also express those
then, even if you're right, you'd deal with a system of too many parameters to work with.

Claiming everythng that makes sense (can reasonably be talked about) can already expressed in formal logic - this is what Wittgenstein/Russel claimed a little more than 100 years ago (Logicism).

If you want a natural language that's more oriented in logic than e.g. English, look at stuff like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
(which never take off)

If you're interested in analyzing natural languages formally, that's done in e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_grammar
Those subjects are e.g. the reason why you find linguists names like Chomski in fields like computer science / math.