Half the time, they clearly had no idea what was really going on and had massively overcomplicated things as a result.
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Replying to @cmuratori
@cmuratori Is this in popscience/journalism or just talking to random mathematicians you meet?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @hamish_todd
@hamishtodd1 Math papers. "Mathematicians" might be unfair, too - kind of like "scientist" is loosely applied these days.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cmuratori
@hamishtodd1 I suspect a lot of people who write mathematics are not probably considered mathematicians, but I'm not sure the right word.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cmuratori
@hamishtodd1 "People who write down things in the style of a mathematical paper or proof".1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cmuratori
@cmuratori Somewhat circular there but I gotcha :P1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @hamish_todd
@hamishtodd1 Yeah, I don't want to insult actual mathematicians by perhaps including people who are only pretending to be mathematicians :)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cmuratori
@cmuratori Indeed. Just to clarify, the latter 50% you were talking about were ppl who are doing proper maths, but don't interpret it right?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @hamish_todd
@hamishtodd1 Sometimes they did the math wrong, other times they did the wrong math ;P2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
@hamishtodd1 There's my epitaph right there!
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