/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9647443
Do you have an actual job or professorship related to mathematics? Or do you just post trivial fun facts on an anime forum? That doesn't sound like a wasted life at all

What's the motivation for a non mathematician to learn about complex numbers? What about infinite series?

If the scientific method is just one epistemic method out of infinitely many, and science is merely a subset of philosophy, then why do non-scientist philosophers completely evacuate any field that scientists are directly involved with? Surely they have a lot to contribute? Philosophy is more than just science.

So for example, philosophers love talking about the brain and consciousness but they are suspiciously quiet about how cars work. Why is this? Why isn't the Harvard faculty trying to work it out, when cars are such an important part of our society? The engineering / scientific school has merely done it through the scientific method yet there are still so many more methods to be used!

It seems the main function of philosophers is to spin ever more elaborate and unfalsifiable chains of reasoning about subject areas that haven't yet been colonised by scientists or mathematicians and desecrated with maths at a higher than secondary school level. But that's just my ignorant cynicism, no doubt.

Do people really need to take breaks or are people too lazy to work hard?

1. How did Einstein make his breakthrough while working at a patent office when you rarely hear about any of his work after a certain point in his life, when he had a lot of free time?

2. Do you think working on the same thing for many hours in a row will always be inefficient due to wasting time when being stuck? Is struggling with problems stupid or good if it takes more than half an hour?

3. Is boredom when working on something for a long time your brain telling you it's time to do something different so it can process all you've seen? Or is it you being a pussy with ADD?

4. If you can't figure something out quickly, can it be figured out at all?

5. What is the difference between how a "knowledge worker" should work and how a "manual worker" should work? Can the brain work non stop, unlike someone's body at the gym?

After Fermat's last theorem, what is the next most basic sounding proof that has never been found?

>every action has an equal opposite reaction

>punch an object with 30 N of force
>there's 30 N of force in the punch's direction
>there's 30 N of force in the opposite direction to the punch

Energy doesn't disappear when applied in opposite directions so where the hell does the energy from for the "reacting" 30 N come from? Where is conservation of energy when you need it?