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LigH

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« Reply #15 on: February 23, 2006, 08:48:34 am »
Science, eyh? - Okay! :D

- Scientific special school (class 9-12)
- \"Abitur\" examination with grade 1.9 (probably \"B\" if you use letters)
- Graduated Computer Scientist of a College (we have to say that it\'s not of an Uni)
- previously had jobs as Software Developer and Video DVD Author

Ask Tmed about my knowledge -- or shall I say, lim[inf](Tmed) ?!
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« Reply #16 on: February 23, 2006, 10:22:16 am »
I always wondered, what does a computer scientist actually do? Cos at my Uni, they seem to take quite a few advanced maths course (number theory, combinatorics,...)
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« Reply #17 on: February 23, 2006, 11:05:59 am »
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I always wondered, what does a computer scientist actually do?


 At mine they seem to drink and party a lot... for something that at face value seems so sedate... its quite surprising^^
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« Reply #18 on: February 23, 2006, 11:26:44 am »
Not a mathematician, but another physicist (or rather going-to-be physicist) here.

And for those who call physicists weird: Yes, they are, but that\'s nothing compared to real methematicians, those are really wicked!
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« Reply #19 on: February 23, 2006, 05:29:51 pm »
@ Pale:

Depends.

Depends on how they specialize.

Software developers may need to solve problems which require good math knowledge in different areas: Probability, set theory, spatial and temporal optimizations, path finding, algorithm development in general, boolean logic, numerics (including error tracking), derivation and integration, harmonic analysis...

Hardware developers instead have to know much about physics (e.g. semiconductors), electronics, boolean logic, thermodynamics...

And apart from that, there is also \"information theory\".
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Do you know the difference between a physician and a mathematician?



Case 1: Heat a glass of water.
Given: Empty glass, heater, water sink.

P: Takes glass to sink, fills it with water, puts it on the heater, switches it on - after a few minutes the water starts boiling.
M: Takes glass to sink, fills it with water, puts it on the heater, switches it on - after a few minutes the water starts boiling.



Case 2: Heat a glass of water.
Given: Water filled glass, heater, sink.

P: Puts the already full glass on the heater, switches it on - after a few minutes the water starts boiling.
M: Takes the full glass to the sink, empties it - and led back Case 2 to Case 1.
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« Reply #20 on: February 23, 2006, 06:48:48 pm »
My university degree was Math And Computer Science.  Didn\'t care that much for the Math part though.  My wife is a Math teacher.
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« Reply #21 on: February 23, 2006, 11:24:37 pm »
here\'s another math joke
a physist, engineer, and a mathematician are challenged to find the shortest fence to enclose a flock of sheep.

the physist looks at the space that one sheep needs. and figures out from that the length of fence.

the engineer looks at the flock of sheep. doubles out the size of space they occpy and runs the fence.

the mathematican runs the fence around himself and says, \"i define this to be the outside.\"
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« Reply #22 on: February 23, 2006, 11:35:53 pm »
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Originally posted by Rolf Blacksmith
Not a mathematician, but another physicist (or rather going-to-be physicist) here.

And for those who call physicists weird: Yes, they are, but that\'s nothing compared to real methematicians, those are really wicked!


at the moment im taking both maths and physics at a level...

but the physics teachers are a whole lot stranger than the maths...

infact the maths teachers are pretty boring, I have the school head for maths, we are the only class he takes
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« Reply #23 on: February 24, 2006, 12:49:38 am »
I feel I must leap to the defence of eccentric mathematicians everywhere!

*leaps*

*bads awkwardly, twists his ankle, limps off*

Ahem! I\'m thinking about the department here, and we don\'t have any really \'weird\' people at the moment. A few who stand at a slight angel to the world, though.


Math jokes? Here we go!

There are 10 kinds of mathematician. Those who think in binary and those who don\'t.

Algebraists do it in groups.

A mathematician and his best friend, an engineer, attend a public lecture on geometry in thirteen-dimensional space.
\"How did you like it?\" the mathematician wants to know after the talk.
\"My head\'s spinning\", the engineer confesses. \"How can you develop any intuition for thirteen-dimensional space?\"
\"Well, it\'s not even difficult. All I do is visualize the situation in arbitrary N-dimensional space and then set N = 13.\"

And continuing on LigH\'s ideas:

A mathematician and a physicist are having lunch, when the wastepaper bin catches fire. Immediately the physicist leaps up and douses it with water.
The next day, it catches fire again. The mathematician stands up, hands the bin to the physicist and announces he\'s reduced the situation to a problem already solved.


However, I think all this distrust between mathematicians, physicists and engineers is unfair. We should resolve our differences and gang up on the statisticians. Talk about weird!


Sorry, edited for one more:

Q: How can you tell that a mathematician is extroverted?
A: When talking to you, he looks at your shoes instead of at his.
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« Reply #24 on: February 24, 2006, 04:50:30 am »
Increment the physicist count!

Doing a PhD in solar physics in sunny Texas, although most of my data comes from up above

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/
http://soi.stanford.edu/
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