>>11859392>>11860500The fight between engineers, mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, etc.. is mostly artificial or tongue-in-cheek in the real world. STEM is too large for one set of researchers to feasibly tackle, and there’s a lot of cross communication these days.
>Condensed matter physics regularly contributes to useful research for many other fields, and every major advance in fundamental physics has advanced engineering.>Mathematics is similarly important - every big result has had serious implications for stem, especially theory. Noether’s push in algebra gave us conservation laws, and Kleene’s push in logic gave us Turing degrees and the theory of NP-hardness. Similarly,>Engineering pushes have made serious quality of life improvements to research and have directed old research into good directions (particle physics applications in things like PET scans). Life would not be the same without engineering because applied research helps us all, in stem or out of stem.>we meme on computer science all the time, but its given out similarly invaluable work and foundations to stem. We have all of vision research, FEM and CAD, graphics and visualization, complexity theory which actually is developed enough to have application to fundamental physics and biology, and the mounds of math research it fed back into departments. I’m not gonna be surprised when CS theory starts getting relevant at the undergrad level for science and mathematics.It’s a sign you’re not gonna make it if you don’t have an unabashed love for all of these fields and a desire to do research from your field that can help the others.
