The Battle of the Nerds

[Kozmos]

Engineers apply both science and mathematics. So they are kind of 50/50 on both ways.

 

[angeleyes]

Too few options, don't vote, i am a truth-denier

 

[IglooDame]

Engineers don't use math in their profession, they call mathematicians to ask them to do the math for them...

just kidding, just kidding.

I mean, I'm not kidding about them calling us, but I'm kidding about implying they couldn't do it on their own. The rivalry between Mathematicians and Engineers is a bit like the rivalry between Milwaukee and Chicago: one way.

If I had to hazard a guess, I would put musicians/sculptors/painters ahead of mathematicians and engineers when it comes to truth-seeking.

Look at the tools mathematicians and scientists use - they're designed by engineers...

 

[Erik Mesoy]

The tools my local mathematician uses are pen and paper.

 

[Kozmos]

But we bestowed the calculator and it's offspring upon you.

 

[thetrooper]

The tools my local mathematician uses are pen and paper.

Erik Bedos? Heard of him before?

 

[pboily]

Look at the tools mathematicians and scientists use - they're designed by engineers...

true, as Erik pointed out, my pen has been designed by an engineer.

 

[IglooDame]

The tools my local mathematician uses are pen and paper.

That ball-point mechanism didn't grow on a tree.

 

[nonconformist]

Engineers are, in effect, glorified monkeys, while mathematicians generally take excitement in paint drying, BBC7, and Fermat's theorem, as well as having no Nobel Prize, and having Isaac Newton to boast on their honours list.
Sciencery is where it's at.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Engineers aren't truthseekers, they just make stuff. That's why they make more money than scientists and mathematicians.

 

[angeleyes]

Mathematicans: playing an introvert game that's surprisingly usefull;
Engineers: making tools;
Scientist: making maps, sometimes usefull for engineers.

Nothing concerning Truth.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

The Doc was a scientist, so I'll go for that

 

[Atticus]

But we bestowed the calculator and it's offspring upon you.

Mathematicians don't use calculators, and by the way the calculator needs instructions for calculating. Also, Johann von Neumann who is thought to be "the father of computer" was mathematician.

 

[Irish Caesar]

Engineers aren't in it to seek truth, they're in it to do something useful.

Lawyers seek truth.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

Software is a form of mathematics.

Okay, pencil and paper, for those of you moaning about pens.

 

[Catharsis]

The statistician is superior to all three.

 

[Fetus4188]

Engineers don't seek truth, they apply it. Scientists use math to describe their truths.

 

[Fugitive Sisyphus]

The statistician is superior to all three.

And he can manipulate the statistics to prove it.

 

[Catharsis]

And he can manipulate the statistics to prove it.

EXACTLY! The statistician doesn't seek the truth; the statistician makes the truth. Surely that's more important?

 

[The Last Conformist]

Lawyers seek truth.

Lawyers don't seek truth, they seek loopholes.