/sci/ - Science & Math

Guys like Roger Penrose for instance, he has done work in both pure maths and theoretical physics. Does this mean that mathematicians have more freedom in what they can do in their research areas than physicists?

https://linkto.run/p/VK41D31G

https://phys.org/news/2016-11-physicists-mathematics.html

Me and my friends in physics all agree that our major is superior to that of comp sci, but the one guy in our group who is a comp sci major says that even though our degree is more difficult, comp sci majors will have a far easier time getting a job. And that physics majors are going to have to go into stuff like finance or software where they will be competing with guys who majored in those fields, making it likely that we will have a hard time getting a job in either.

He made some sense imo. It made me wonder if I really am just going to end up jobless.

4chan says /pol/ is always right, so are they right about this, or has /pol/ finally found the one thing they are not right about.

What exactly makes these different? Ive read a bit about them and it seems that the mathematical physicists care more about the maths involve in the physical problems, but thats pretty much it. So are they the same, is it just that one is in the math dept. and the other is in the physics dept.?

Just look at history, the best mathematicians all worked on foundations