Re: Hopefully Not Looking For Unicorns

"Tyler" <Tyler.Firth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote :

> ... math is the real world studied,
> defined, and then applied to itself, just like any other science.

That's not necessarily true. A lot of guys spent their lives finding the
solutions to differential equations for which, at the time, there was no
practial, real world application. For mathematics to be anything other than
an oddity, it has to be a tool for solving physical problems, not just
applied to itself. And, unless it's a simple counting exercise, most
problems are not defined, only approximated.


> I'm not overwhelmingly concerned with statistics.

You should be. Without statistics and process control, the chemical and
allied industries in the US would be as strong and healthy as the automotive
and heavy industrial industries. Unlike our IE counterparts, while Deming
was off in Asia, the ChemE's in the US already understood the importance of
statistics and applied it to their industries.


-Mike


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