as if math graduates could do that sort of addition in their head
My brother has a PhD in pure mathematics. Sometimes I get in trouble (yes, hyperbole) with him because, while I’m pretty decent at arithmetic and I like numbers, he knows so much more about either than I do. For example, I recently said that 57 was a boring number (I tried to connect it to 17, which I like, but was thinking of 19, which is fine) and learned quite a lot from both him and some lemmings.
Another time I told him that I thought there was debate about whether 2 was prime and I subsequently got quite a lecture on the nature of primality.
Point I’m trying to make is, give at least some math graduates at least some credit.
Gotta add context for readers.
Of all the numbers to call boring you picked the Grothendieck prime.
2 is unambiguously prime. The best motivation for the definition of primality I know is the fundamental theorem of arithmetic: every integer greater than 1 can be uniquely decomposed into a product of primes. That’s what primes are, and the uniqueness constraint is why 1 is not prime.
the uniqueness constraint is why 1 is not prime.
There’s more than one way to multiply numbers to get 1?
1, 11, 11*1, etc
But by that reasoning, 7 is not prime because you can do 7, 1*7, 1*1*7 etc.
Hence why 1 is not considered prime
So what are the prime factors of 1?
Are you my brother?
It’s weird how we use the word for a teacher as a name for physicians.
I actually don’t think we should require physicians to be doctors. Medicine doesn’t really have a lot to do with teaching. We do need some PhDs in medicine, but I don’t think physicians need to be qualified to teach.
Physicians don’t require PhDs, they require MDs.
A PhD is a Doctor of Philosophy while a MD is a Doctor of Medicine. So I guess in that way the title “Doctor” radically changes based on the field kinda like the title “Engineer”.
Yeah I’m saying physicians shouldn’t have MDs. They should have some other non-teaching physician qualification, or a PhD in medicine.
You shouldn’t be able to get an MD at a Bachelor or Master level. And patients should not expect to see a doctor when they walk into a clinic or hospital.
I think you have things backwards. PhDs are just proof of becoming an expert researcher in a field, and MDs are just proof of becoming a practitioner of medicine.
Some who get PhDs or MDs become teachers because of their proficiency, but the purpose of PhDs and MDs isn’t to become teachers.
If the purpose of an MD isn’t to be a teacher, why do they use the word doctor? Doctor means teacher. Pick a different word!
I’m staring to think MDs aren’t actually doctors!
If we’re putting effort into fixing how society uses words, can we work on flammable versus inflammable first? Then I vote for fixing the odd one out in the terrible, terrific, horrible, horrific quad. Then the split between awful and awe. Then…
can we work on flammable versus inflammable first?
no. also you missed horrid
you mean like Nurse Practitioners?
For what it’s worth, patient education is a necessary component of any medical interaction. Most medical doctors need to be able to teach. Unless you’re a pathologist I guess, and never speak directly to the patients.
If you divided them horizontally, they would stop
Most people stop if you divide them horizontally.
Only most?
Some are worms
only most
Lieutenant Dan!
Only a flesh wound
Did they have the poisson for the in-flight meal.
It could also be one person who is having both a heart attack and an asthma attack.
Oho, but the cunning mathematician never specified the units. They could easily have meant two medical incidents, not two people!
Its a math degree, not group theory
Is there a doctor around? There’s someone who has 30 minutes to respond to a funding call and needs help ASAP.
Those are not good odds.
Why did this jerk speak up in an emergency? To confuse people? Sheesh (yes I know it’s part of the joke blah blah but let me take a moral high ground on an argument in my head for a second)
Because he’s a doctor and doesn’t know what kind of doctor they are looking for.
OK I get that - but in this fake scenario how many math PhDs would seriously be like “oh I’m a doctor that might be useful on an airplane right here right now”
c’mon that makes no sense
I get it’s a joke and all but if a PhD is that full of themself then they need to take a break lol
Non-ambiguous use of language is important in our training.
Lmao hopefully common sense and reading the room is too bud
No wonder academia is fucked
He’s helping with the mathematical aspects of the emergency. He’s doing the best he can!
