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Old 09-08-2009, 01:09 PM
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There is nothing worse than an upstart to all us physicists. We will come round and hoist you by your own petard sjastro.
Bert
The plight of the Applied Mathematician.

They are considered to be intellectually inferior by the Pure Mathematician and also castigated for selling the soul of mathematics to other sciences.

And to the physicist they intrude on their territory.....

What's even more galling to the physicist is when a mathematician wins the Nobel prize for physics.

Steven
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