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One of those stands out as different from the others: statistics. It's a branch of math. It's fundamental. We've proven its properties to be comprehensive, such
by garmaine 7y ago
One of those stands out as different from the others: statistics. It's a branch of math. It's fundamental. We've proven its properties to be comprehensive, such that any other formulation with the same basic axioms would do the same thing.
It's not like when we got a lot of experience gathering physical data we suddenly realized we were doing integrals and derivatives wrong.
- Balgair 7y agoI mean sort-of? Math is a brach of logic, sure, but the computer has acted like a microscope for math already. We can more easily check our conjectures and see if they hold true. Also, we've been able to communicate better, so that has helped out math as well. Even though math is 'above' us little humans, the day-to-day work of mathematicians has been helped out a lot, even in the small ways of not having to lug your mortal-coil through the library stacks. So, with all this big data, I'd have guessed that we could have seen more edge cases with statistics. Little areas where someone said 'huh that's funny'.