Tetronian comments on Configurations and Amplitude - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 April 2008 07:41AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (375)

Sort By: Old

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 May 2012 07:43:18PM *  2 points [-]
Comment author: thomblake 04 May 2012 07:59:11PM 0 points [-]

Doesn't look like a definitive answer to me, though it does answer somewhat for that particular example.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 May 2012 08:29:38PM 0 points [-]

Agreed, it's not definitive. The best way to answer this would probably be to round up a bunch of engineers and ask them how much they use math. That would give us a quick average estimate of how today's engineers use math. Unless you're interested in specific important discoveries in engineering, in which case it would make more sense to examine the most influential breakthroughs case-by-case.