Re: Book about mathematical sloppiness by physicists?

What is your intention? Perhaps there are not even serious papers on
that topic. You asked:

Does anyone know of a book that discusses the ways that physicists are
sloppy with mathematics?


While 'mathematical sloppiness by physicists' can be considered to
include basic mistakes concerning the appropriateness of particular
tools, 'the way that physicists are sloppy with mathematics' suggests
that you are considering just less qualified or lazy physicists which
tend to perform mathematics incorrectly. As polar lander showed,
experimental physics and technology do not tolerate much sloppiness.

Was John v. Neumann sloppy when he introduced Hilbert space just a few
years before he in 1935 admitted that he did no longer believe in it?

Some months ago I posted here where Schroedinger was sloppy in 1926. His
dramatised cat was not based on sloppy use of mathematics but rather on
formally 'correct' use of a mathematics that was possibly too rigorous
in the sense that usual interpretation of it possibly has been dealing a
bit sloppy with the subtle relationship between set-theoretical
fundamentals of mathematics and more comprehensive aspects of the real
world, as we may experience it.

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