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| Apr 15, 2018 at 14:37 | comment | added | guest | Leaving aside the "didn't answer the question", which I am not so strict on, the answer doesn't show strong insight. Saying "everything depends on math" is like physicists who say "all chemistry depends on the Schroedinger Equation". But in practice, many phenomena are too complex to be addressed with QM AND are well addressed by empirical rules from organic chemistry or periodic table relationships (for inorganic) or ion packing models for solid state chemistry. You don't understand what people are doing and how they do it, if you make this comments like "it's all QM" or "it's all math". | |
| May 3, 2014 at 23:35 | comment | added | Ben Voigt | The question was not "Is math helpful?" but "How are the specific topics classified as 'calculus' helpful?" You didn't address "how" in the slightest. | |
| May 1, 2014 at 7:41 | comment | added | András Bátkai | @MattF. What I meant was that as teachers of mathematics, we dream of a world where these claims are true, but it would be great to support them. As your example shows, it is just a dream and we should know our place. | |
| May 1, 2014 at 3:35 | comment | added | user173 | Niels Bohr was most of the most influential physicists of the 20th century, with essentially no math: he relied instead on his brother Harald. So Craig, I would say yes, and @Andras, I disagree. | |
| Apr 30, 2014 at 18:58 | comment | added | András Bátkai | Could you make your answer more focused and provide evidence on these claims? We all agree in our heart with you, but some data is always better... | |
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| Apr 30, 2014 at 18:32 | history | answered | Craig | CC BY-SA 3.0 |