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2717487 No.2717487 [Reply] [Original]

Why doesn't the enterprise have a chief mathematics officer.

>> No.2717535

Because maths has no practical use.

>> No.2717545

Lt Data would suffice.

>> No.2717551

>>2717487
cuz serious math is for strange looking guys with giant beards

>> No.2717558

ITT: No one says "Because they had the central computer"

>> No.2717571

engineer = mathematician that isn't too abstract to be of any use

yfw.no mathematician will ever go to space.

>> No.2717609
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2717609

I remember an episode about kids in early elementary school taking calculus or something to that effect. Pretty sure that implies they're all fucking advanced at the officer level.

>> No.2717632

>>2717609

>thinks calculus is advanced.

GTFO highschooler.

>> No.2717636

>>2717632
...but calculus at elementary school IS advanced.

>> No.2717646

>>2717636

Clearly you havent read Atlas shrugged.

>> No.2717684

>>2717632

I'm in my final year of a degree in mathematics; calculus get pretty fucking advanced.

>> No.2717728

>>2717646
Clearly I have a better taste in literature.

>> No.2717823

doing calculus along various curves climbed in manifolds does not make it easy

also i can see the