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I spend pretty much every weekend hiking, snowshoeing, and/or cross country skiing in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest. I'm also an engineer. So

• hhm 18y ago
  And how do you deal with it? What do you feel? I think that while engineering has a limit for how beautiful it can get, maths is much more nature-like in this regard.
  • RobertL 18y ago
    The fact that I've been going back to nature every weekend for the last 4 decades should kind of speak for itself. Math is one of the foundations of all engineering disciplines and some of the great mathematical minds like Newton and fourier and laplace considered themselves more engineers than mathematicians. But nature is nature and engineering is engineering. Both have their fascinations but both are different. They need to be apprciated as they are. I find no need to ask questions like "Is one better than the other??".
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    • milwaukeegreeny 18y ago
      Very nicely stated RL.
    • babyshake 18y ago
      I appreciate that. Maybe I'm just not spending enough time outdoors.