(you are an aeronautical engineer, aren't you? I may be mis-remembering that actually)).
Well, I'm a software engineer for aeronautics to be precise. But you know, we are so much above the common people that we don't notice it when they try to say something against it.(@Steph: I was just kidding around; feigning shock at the notion that you would allow a fellow countryman to impugn the good names of engineers everywhere.
That's cool, but it's going to take a lot of your buddies (and a lot of paper) to keep up with the FLOPS accomplished by this silicon chip that my engineering buddies have designed ...
Hehe... scientists I say.
A mathematician, a scientist, and an engineer are each given 200m of fence by a wealthy philanthropist, and told that they can have as much land as they can fence in with it. The engineer makes a 50x50m square, and the scientist makes a circle 200m in circumference. The mathematician takes one metre of fence, wraps it around himself and says "I define myself to be outside of the fence".A mathematician, a scientist, and an engineer are each put at one end of a hallway, with a gorgeous, naked and eager member of the opposite sex at the other end. They're told that during each second, they will be allowed to advance up to one-half of whatever distance remains between them and their goal. The mathematician and scientist immediately walk away, saying, "everyone knows that the series 1/2, 3/4, 7/8, ... never reaches or exceeds 1".
The engineer waits until they're gone and says, "Well technically, yeah, but after a few dozen iterations, I'll be close enough for all practical purposes."
She can promote my pawn (to a giant sized set king) anyday!
I was never any good at doing stuff in my head. I guess thats what they mean when they say that Engineers get Mathematicians to do it for them? A very hands on profession.Well, pboily did say it was mental masturbation...
Judging purely on coolness factor, then mathematicians FTW!I will admit that I should have not used the word "truth-seeker" - all I wanted was a thread where we can debate the 'merits' of quantitative academics.
