Let's keep in mind though that mathematics is a sequence of logical inferences which doesn't fight against anything whereas a cure for cancer is a fight against errors and entropy.
Let's keep in mind though that mathematics is a sequence of logical inferences which doesn't fight against anything whereas a cure for cancer is a fight against errors and entropy.
I'm a mathematician and I'm the biggest fighter most people have ever met this side of a PhD. It always felt like a fight to me personally, against the errors and entropy of my own mind. Not identical to cancer fighting but I'd say only the tactics are different.