>>11581820>Without a doubt abstraction becomes more difficult the older one gets. This is why many engineering advances are done by old people with 30+ years in research, while in math pretty much every big result is from people under 40.You got that wrong. Fields medal is only awarded to people below 40, because after that age people start publishing mad amounts of results. That's why it's such an achievement to do something under 40 in maths.
>From my experience, engineering classes are hard because you have so much work to do (homeworks, projects, labs, design clubs)Physics major doing PhD in aerospace btw. I agree with this, they have mich more work to do compared to maths or physics students, but it's not as superficial as people from "purer" branches think at all. Maybe in bad schools, I don't know that, but usually they take similar math courses that physicists do (one semester less), do differential geometry and all that stuff for cybernetics and control theory. PDEs too, obviously.
>>11582044He helped him formulate the correct mathematical framework around it ("after the mathematicians got ahold of my theory, I didn't understand it anymore").
Reminder for mathematicians to work with physicists and vice versa, btw.
