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This reminds me of the line in A Beautiful Mind: > You know, there could be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is. It's fascinating to me (as a n
by OJFord 2y ago
This reminds me of the line in A Beautiful Mind:
> You know, there could be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.
It's fascinating to me (as a non-mathematician) the breadth of what's interesting in mathematics. e.g. here obviously you could have some equation to describe such a shape if you needed it to model a building roof or something, but more than that it's actually apparently useful to mathematicians to 'learn from nature' etc. in the reverse, drawing inspiration from such things that then have whatever application in some obscure (perhaps, or to me) corner of mathematical research.
- joshmarlow 2y agoI think it's also interesting that we don't always know the applications for mathematical insights. IIRC, Euler invented graph theory (even the traveling salesman problem) and basically wrote that he knew of no applications for it. Now we know that traveling salesman is equivalent to graph-coloring which is crucial for compliers when assigning efficient register allocation in deeply pipe-lined architectures.