Timeline for Why's math way more puzzling, abstruse than law and medicine?
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| Dec 22, 2021 at 21:10 | comment | added | J.G. | @evolva See here. | |
| Dec 21, 2021 at 21:45 | comment | added | David S | I joined the community just to comment about how this answer didn't continue on about any deeper understanding or influence of Euler's identity to real life or that it has nothing to do with the referenced real life. | |
| Dec 21, 2021 at 18:52 | comment | added | Kai | I would also add to this that abstract mathematics at its heart rests on some (very elegant) abstract ideas, which are not familiar to people in their every day life. For example, homomorphisms are absolutely ubiquitous and a fundamental concept, but if I describe it to you as "a structure preserving map", you need to first have some idea of what a "map" is, what "structure" means, what kinda of objects can be mapped, what does it mean to preserve structure. These concepts are nuanced and require lots of context and some foundations like set theory to really get familiar with. | |
| Dec 21, 2021 at 16:03 | comment | added | quarague | @curiousdannii Almost all graduate level maths uses letters/ symbols which do not even represent just numbers but much more abstract concepts. Even large chunks of number theory are not about numbers in a sense a lay person would think of as numbers. | |
| Dec 21, 2021 at 11:44 | comment | added | curiousdannii | Euler's identity is at least still using numbers! Set theory is commonly said to be the foundation of mathematics, and is so abstracted that lots of discussions of it don't even use numbers. | |
| Dec 21, 2021 at 8:15 | history | edited | Wrzlprmft | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
If I understand correctly, the second half of the answer entirely belongs to the second point.
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| Dec 21, 2021 at 7:04 | comment | added | Jens Schauder | @evolva I think chemistry shares many properties of math, by being very abstract and using a language that is very far removed from normal spoken languages. | |
| S Dec 21, 2021 at 7:01 | history | edited | Wrzlprmft | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Dec 21, 2021 at 7:01 | history | suggested | user155 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 20, 2021 at 18:13 | comment | added | user155 | "Of course, this changes once you get into things like e.g. Biochemistry." Please expatiate and elaborate? Why does Biochemistry make medicine so much LESS accessible and intuitive? | |
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| S Dec 20, 2021 at 9:34 | review | First answers | |||
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| S Dec 20, 2021 at 9:34 | history | answered | Jens Schauder | CC BY-SA 4.0 |