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Anonymous at Sat, 8 Jun 2024 16:31:47 UTC No. 16222244
>engineering is a field of troubleshooting/fixing problems
>math is a field of understanding logic with about as many practical uses as philosophy
Why are the two seen as inseparable when math doesn't use any of the same thinking abilities as engineering?
Anonymous at Sat, 8 Jun 2024 17:32:55 UTC No. 16222344
engineering is applied mathematics
Anonymous at Sat, 8 Jun 2024 17:42:45 UTC No. 16222365
>>16222344
Engineering doesn't need mathematics. For instance the Romans engineered a fuck ton of structures like the Coliseum, aqueducts, etc. without mathematics. Conversely Mathematics doesn't need engineering. In fact it doesn't even need Physics or any other academic subject for that matter.
Modern engineering uses mathematics because it makes building/designing shit easier.
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 01:10:21 UTC No. 16223367
>>16222244
please try to do literally any engineering without math.
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 01:15:59 UTC No. 16223377
>>16222344
No, engineering is applied physics. It strictly deals with the realm of real life structures.
Physics is applied math.
Math is applied imaginations.
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 01:45:36 UTC No. 16223434
>>16222365
I highly doubt that. They at least understood basic geometry
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 03:12:47 UTC No. 16223607
>>16222365
>Doesn't need any other academic subject
Why is this the modern assumption with math? Historically, every major 'movement' in math was triggered by the applied community. You dig into any of the fields, and it comes from some observations of the physical reality. All the way back to the Greeks, even with the concept of the platonic ideal, the real informs the understanding of the platonic.
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 04:07:02 UTC No. 16223688
>>16223377
There's lots of engineering disciplines that primarily deal with abstractions and mathematical modeling.
Control theory, as an example, does have at some level application to controlling a real system at some point, but has an entire theoretical modeling discipline separated from this. Optimization theory and information they are much the same despite both being engineering disciplines.
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 04:18:53 UTC No. 16223715
>>16223434
https://youtu.be/_ivqWN4L3zU?si=zLP