Re: Knowledge-proof arrogance

On Jan 20, 8:23 pm, Tom Sherman <sunsetss0...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The Andre Jute wrote:

I dunno, Chalo. You can save yourself a lot of heartburn if you regard
an engineer an eejit expensively edjicated to tell people with real-
life experience what they cannot do, and when they've done it anyway,
tell them why they shoulda done it some other way.

Mr. Jute's jealousy is showing. :)

Smart operators learn young that mathematicians, who can work out
anything engineers learn of by heart at college, come cheap,[...]

A mathematician would not have a freaking clue where to start doing what
I do.

Related tale: Many years ago, a very talented mathematician came to a
colleague of mine, because the mathematician had a friend who had just
bought his first CNC mill. The mathematician volunteered to learn to
program it.

My colleague took the time to teach him, and succeeded well. The
mathematician was extraordinarily pleased. His quote: "This is the
first time in my life I've done anything practical!"

Theoretical math is good stuff - in fact, we wouldn't have CNC or much
of engineering without it. CNC programming is good stuff too. But
neither one is engineering. I agree with Tom, a mathematician would
have to start learning engineering at square one.

- Frank Krygowski
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