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Just don’t mention maths envy to physicists.

• quchen 4y ago
  You don’t tell me about math envy and I won’t mention how the Dirac Delta Function was invented, deal? :-P
  • hovden 4y ago
    Loose use of the dirac delta is a give away trait of a physicist. While a mathematician will spend pages to justify its use
• sidlls 4y ago
  Physicists don't have math envy; that's an invention of people who are jealous of physicists' "untrained" acumen. Next we'll hear of "computer science envy" because physicists employ programming in their research. It would be equally absurd, of course.
  • alickz 4y ago
    The joke goes that biology is just applied chemistry, and chemistry is just applied physics, with physics just being applied maths.
    • sidlls 4y ago
      Yeah, I know the joke. It’s an amusing one, but probably not for the reason some math people think.
• paulpauper 4y ago
  there is not much of a clear distinction between high level math and physics anymore. they are blurred