> The latter is the jokes about the physicists "assuming a perfectly spherical cow."
Not to detract from your point at all, but I only ever heard this joke about mathematicians!
> The latter is the jokes about the physicists "assuming a perfectly spherical cow."
Not to detract from your point at all, but I only ever heard this joke about mathematicians!
do we mathematicians do particularly much work with cows that is made simpler by assuming they're spherical?
I've definitely heard a similar joke about economists. It probably applies to most sciences, tbh