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Insecurity. There are many maths professors who do not really enjoy them. This creates insecurity which the formalism alleviates (as an insecure person myself,
by pfortuny 4y ago
Insecurity.
There are many maths professors who do not really enjoy them. This creates insecurity which the formalism alleviates (as an insecure person myself, I know the strength of formal rules).
They are afraid to do maths the true way: take a real example and “be led by it” to the formalism, not the other way round.
Best example: how do you compute the moment of inertia (or the kinetic emergy, it does not matter) of a rotating object? That is the reason for integration in several variables. Not exactly measure theory or Fubini’s Theorem.
- constantcrying 4y agoWhat an idiotic way to describe an entire profession. Surely mathematicians only use abstraction to feel superior to others. It can not be that abstraction is the most useful tool in all of mathematics, because it allows one idea to be used in a wide varity of areas. >Best example: how do you compute the moment of inertia (or the kinetic emergy, it does not matter) of a rotating object? That is the reason for integration in several variables. Not exactly measure theory or Fubini’s Theorem. And measure theory only exists because arrogant mathematicians couldn't take it that physicists were calculating moments of inertia. There simply is no other use for it! Stupid insecure mathematicians.
- vgatherps 4y agoAre you seriously claiming that measure theory came about because .... mathematicians were insecure about people doing multiple integrals?