> Try telling that to a statistician, or a computer scientist, or an economist, or.... It is easy to miss Arnold's point here due to imperfect expression. Whic

> Try telling that to a statistician, or a computer scientist, or an economist, or.... It is easy to miss Arnold's point here due to imperfect expression. Which is that without reality checks and intuition about the math concepts all the elaborate abstract thought frameworks and rigorous results may be very misleading and counter-productive. > central field of study in math and is also becoming a major part of theoretical physics It is in vogue, perhaps, but it is hardly a major part of theoretical physics.