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What does a scientist look like?
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Mathematics on its own

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A Mathematician could easily analyze everything from economics to religion to history academically. But the political analyst of English essayist could not do the same to Mathematics. This ultimately brings us to the question of what makes Mathematics so special. I argue that Mathematics is the pure practice of logic and analysis, having extreme worth mainly in proof and in careful measurement. Discuss.
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brain

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Hey neurofrens, I have a curiosity that I wasn't sure how to google
I noticed that after having sex or watching porn to orgasm, there is this fuzzy, numb feeling in my brain. It corresponds to lack of ability to pay attention and exert effort. This exact same feeling happens after an intensely fun gaming session and gambling with slots online. Obviously this has something to do with dopamine, but what exactly? Is it a prolactin thing or a dopamine receptor thing or what?
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Biology is no more a science than economics

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Especially epidemiology which is just macroeconomic forecasting disguised as a scientific endeavour.
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>Green's theorem says that the line integral over a curve is the double integral over the region bounded by said curve of the curl in 2 dimensions
>Stokes's theorem says that the line integral over a curve is the flux integral of the curl over the region bounded by said curve
>Gauss's theorem says that the flux integral over a region is the triple integral of the divergence over the volume bounded by said region
I know you can derive Green's theorem from Stokes's theorem, but why isn't there a single unified theorem if all three have the same idea behind it?
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How far are we from female-only reproduction, technologically speaking? So far we have:
>cloning of female animals without male involvement
>induced parthenogenesis in human eggs (egg keeps all 46 chromosomes from the mother instead of mixing with sperm)
>two female mice having babies together with slight genetic editing of one mouse to give its egg male markers and trick the other egg into thinking it's sperm

I guess my question is, if all men suddenly died via some Y-chromosome targeted virus or something, could a female-only human species survive?
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Is the reason we don't use the thermal energy of lava ball earth, because the naga lizards get angry if we flood there home with water or is it something else?
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Which are the minimum Theories for Useful Models?

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I want recommendations that follow this morale:
The minimum _sufficiency_ of axiomatic studies for the _efficient_ understanding of practical mathematical theories.

Because I'm burned out of of these retarded lectures, staring at theorems that have a proof easy to understand but hard to come up with; explained over and over for an hour by a teacher. I'm dying inside being there while I have an actual drive for knowledge.

Case in point: Axiomatic Set Theory books with dozens of exercises. The majority of Mathematicians work without such knowledge in mainstream PURE mathematical subjects.
Read: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6543
8 pages, more than you possibly need to know about sets. Many very recommended books, probably 90% of undergraduate education is done without being able to state more than 3 axioms of Set Theory.

This is not something that teachers talk about nor do authors of abstract non-sense tell you when you start their book. It's as if you were expected to follow a bunch of stupid reasoning like a tool for no reward. Their motivation sometimes is written like "you will be able to understand more abstract non-sense that has applications on one (1) single technological field which by the way is stale and in no need of further improvement". If that kind of description rings the bell of a math subject, please mention it here so I don't lose my time. I'm interested in Algebra because it supposedly has some applications in Physics. I am also interested in Analysis because I don't like the use of differentials without a good definition, but I actually want to know some Physics.

I unironically feel like killing myself over this, nothing is really surprising nor useful so far and I'm in third year. I'm a third year undergraduate in Math, if I go Physics I feel it'd be lacking a lot of explanations; using results before they are properly understood gives me a bit anxiety or feeling of dishonesty. Anything south of Physics is even worse.
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Sup /sci/

Can you fags figure out my homework. Its a problem I can't seem to work it out, its for calculus if that helps

>Give a brief summary of a mathematician and their contribution to mathematics related to your major/concentration/degree program

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