erroneous thoughts

… and so should be the software used in theorem proving and similar stuff! At least according to some mathematicians (and some of them Field medalists).

I can’t resist to make the following extrapolation: should it not be the same (even if to a lesser extent) in teaching?  After all, students could on occasions learn quite a lot from looking at source code. Now all we need is someone to go tell that to Portuguese politicians…

… when I start posting things like this:

A physicist, a mathematician, and an engineer are sitting around and one of them says “It says here that Professor X has come up with a new theorem that all odd numbers greater than 2 are prime“. Each person present thinks to himself:

Mathematician: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, the rest follows by Mathematical induction.

Physicist: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is an experimental error, 11 is prime…

Engineer: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is approximately prime, 11 is prime, 13 is prime …

Mechanical engineer: 3 is prime, 4 is prime, 5 is prime, 6 is prime…

Computer engineer: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 7 is prime, 7 is prime…

To bed, I now march! (Yesterday’s night was long and today’s early morning was, well, early)

Ok, some things are just weird to be true. Or then again … vide, this:

According to the telegraph, a team of mathematicians from Cambridge considered Jessica Alba to be mathematically perfect.

O_o , …

(funny thing is that I found this when I was reading a post about… go figure, copyright! Wicked!! lol…)