>>13684980It is too bad that society forces engineers to apply mathematical objects that have
nothing to do with reality.
Like, one of the first exercises in the first year of engineering studies asks to
calculate the amount of aluminum used to construct a cylindrical soda can of
a given diameter and height.
Ideally in the world of the "finitist" crackpots, there should exist in reality an
ancient wise engineer, who knows the exact answers to all such questions.
But the poor students do not get this option. Instead they have to use the
quantity , which arguably has nothing to do with reality, in their
attempt to compute their answers.
It is criminal that instead of giving the students the ready opportunity to visit the
wise old engineer who lives in the remote mountains, they have to apply purely theoretical objects which we all know are nonextant in our real world.
