Re: Programming skills required by mathematicians?

On Jul 3, 5:30=A0am, "zzbun...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jun 26, 5:16=A0pm, Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSensel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Frederick Williams wrote:
> > > Phil Hobbs wrote:
> > >> [...] =A0For the theoreticians I know, it would be how to hammer in
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> > >> nail without bending it. ;)
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> > > The answer to that problem is to use a hammer to knock in screws:
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> > > being thicker than nails are less likely to bend.
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> > Spoken like a theoretician. =A0;)
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> =A0 =A0So, very true. Since it took real engineers to invent explosive
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> =A0 =A0The purpose being to prove to idiot theoreticians that the only
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> =A0 =A0between a screw and a nail is the "s". It has nothing to do with
> =A0 =A0science idiots and any amount of carpenters.
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> > Cheers,
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What you may not appreciate is that most papers published in
electrical engineering journals (and for all I know all engineering
journals) represent PURE research in that they are of no foreseeable
practical use.  It is like a carpenter authoring an in depth
mathematical analysis of using a rock to hammer a screw.  It gets
published only because it has never been done before and there are no
obvious technical errors.