> Math fans tend to discount and dismiss applied statistics as being not math, in a way that they don't do for physics, for some reason I don't fully grasp.
It's because we're secretly afraid that the physicists are smarter than us.
Less facetiously, physicists keep discovering things that lead to new mathematics we would never have dreamed of ourselves, so we have a healthy respect for how insightful they can be.
It's because we're secretly afraid that the physicists are smarter than us.
Less facetiously, physicists keep discovering things that lead to new mathematics we would never have dreamed of ourselves, so we have a healthy respect for how insightful they can be.