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Tangential; why is math popular on mastodon like computer science is - but little other subjects? What do physicists use, chemists, mechanical engineers?

• ColinWright 2y ago
  Specifically, this is a post on Mathstodon ... note the spelling. Yes, it's on "Mastodon-the-Platform", but this particular post is on a server that literally has the words "maths" in its name.
  • pinoy420 2y ago
    This is what I mean, there is no physicstodon or similar
    • ColinWright 2y ago
      Ah ... sorry ... I mis-understood. Shrug ... no idea. Christian pung me back in March 2017 and said: There's this new social network thing with different servers ... maybe we should make one to focus on Recreational Maths. We thought for a while, and when we hit on the name (it's his fault ... he came up with it) we figured it had to be done. But thinking about it ... there's very little "Recreational Physics" or "Recreational Mechanics" or "Recreational Electronics". There is, I guess, "Recreational Programming" ... but that doesn't feel the same.
    • ykonstant 2y ago
      Mathstodon welcomes cs, physics and other science-related posts (as well as off-topic posts in moderation---the creator views mathstodon as being less about the topics and more about the people: interested in mathematics, cs, problem solving etc).