I agree. Let’s prove them wrong because they sure don’t sound like us anymore.
Anyway, I thought this thread was about math and all I have done is try to illustrate the point. I don’t know why scientists have to make everything they do sound like the most complicated problem in the universe. It isn’t. It is logic and common sense. I don’t need a long string of numbers to tell me what I already know intuitively. But I guess some people don’t find that “intellectual” enough.
Used to drive my math profs crazy because I could answer the questions and solve the problems in my head but couldn’t stretch it out on a whole sheet of paper. I am dyslexic and cannot deal well with numbers, so I turn them into pictures.
well, the extent of my understanding of math is at best rudimentary —but I think I understand the argument against your point about intuition in this case.
getting the math right enables you to communicate the solution person to person. not just the result but how you got there.
intuition can communicate the result but how you got there—not so much. so its difficult if not impossible to replicate.
math forms the tool kit for doing other stuff.
These days I tell interested middle school students that the money math is algorithms & c++ if they’re interested in writing software and statistics if they’re interested in management.