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Great Scientist ≠ Good at Math
- kasperbn 14y agoI bet some great scientists are good at math - the author probably means "Great Scientist ⫫ Good at Math".
- auggierose 14y agoNo, he means that these two classes of people are different. That does not mean that their intersection is empty.
- josephhardin 14y agoIt's worth noting that the author of this article is in the field of Biology, which is one of the last hold-outs for a mathematical revolution. Compared to other STEM fields, biology tends to utilize mathematics the least, especially mor e advanced mathematics. There are of course exceptions, and some great work being done in biological mathematics, but I wonder if the authors viewpoint is changed by this. Anecdotally, I once sat in on a biology lecture(In a math department even) where a visiting lecturer stated his opinion that biology students should not learn differential equations, but should rather just learn to enter them in a computer and follow the phase diagrams. Needless to say, it did not go over well in that crowd.
- j2kun 14y agoOn the other hand, I (a mathematician) don't know differential equations. It's embarrassing, but not relevant to my work. One of these days I will get around to learning it.
- stiff 14y agoRepost from 7 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5506093 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5506093
- auggierose 14y agoThanks for that. I am wondering, I am a pretty regular HN reader, and still I missed that previous post (because I was asleep at the time it was posted, and it vanished too quickly). Any ideas how to fix that problem?
- kaeluka 14y agodon't sleep so much ;-)
- auggierose 14y agoOr, maybe, the HN algorithm should take into account time zones in some way.
- greenyoda 14y agoYou can use HN search to check if the article you want to submit has already been submitted: https://www.hnsearch.com https://www.hnsearch.com