Timeline for Are professional Physicists, Computer Scientists, Engineers, Economists... not allowed to ask questions at MO?
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| Apr 30, 2014 at 1:28 | answer | added | Gordon Royle | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 28, 2014 at 15:11 | answer | added | Noah Snyder | timeline score: 31 | |
| Apr 27, 2014 at 17:35 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @Will: Recall that it's already night here. It is you who is living in the past. And yes for Billy S. | |
| Apr 27, 2014 at 17:33 | comment | added | Will Jagy | @Asaf, sure, in context, that makes perfect sense, explains everything. Wait, unless Billy S. is William Shakespeare? That works. | |
| Apr 27, 2014 at 17:32 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @Will: We had a reasonable bottle of Merlot last night. My preference remains with the Cabernet Sauvignon (I'm not crazy about the 60-40 mixes either). | |
| Apr 27, 2014 at 17:30 | comment | added | Will Jagy | @Asaf, now I've got to figure out who Billy S. might be. Meanwhile, I never read The Merchant of Venice. I did a college course twofer, Edmund Spenser and Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe I understood, Spenser not so much. | |
| Apr 27, 2014 at 17:23 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @Will: Answers to your questions, by order of paraphrasing Billy S: some do; most do; depends on the definition of "food"; yes; not quite; depends on the local health care system; depends on the geographic location (both winter and summer); let's try that and see; I'll take your word for it; yes, I think; I hope not, but I wasn't going to tempt you. | |
| Apr 27, 2014 at 17:08 | answer | added | Kaveh | timeline score: 32 | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 14:16 | comment | added | Steven Landsburg | There are currently 110 users with reputations over 10,000. Of those, at least 3 are not professional mathematicians, and I conjecture that this lower bound is not strict. | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 20:17 | comment | added | Will Jagy | Act III, scene i. | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 20:02 | comment | added | Will Jagy | I am a professional researcher. Hath not a professional researcher eyes? hath not a professional researcher hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a pure mathematician is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 13:53 | answer | added | Gil Kalai | timeline score: 16 | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 13:45 | history | edited | Gil Kalai | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 22, 2014 at 7:25 | comment | added | Tobias Kildetoft | @ScottMorrison I would suspect them to be due to the overly confrontational tone of the question. | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 6:35 | comment | added | Kim Morrison Mod | Why the downvotes? It seems a perfectly reasonable question. | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 6:03 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | If the barber who shaves only those who do not shave themselves is a woman, then she can refrain from shaving herself, without fear of contradiction. | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 4:46 | comment | added | Andy Putman | If they have the mathematical sophistication of a professional mathematician and ask questions at the appropriate level (e.g. graduate school level mathematics and above), then they are welcome. How would we tell the difference between them and ordinary professional mathematicians? But for the vast majority of researchers in other areas I suspect that math.stackexchange.com would be a better fit. | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 4:45 | comment | added | Will Jagy | to be honest, if people post questions in their own argot and assume that pure mathematicians will understand them, it does not generally go well. I just answered a question on MSE, it took me quite a while to look up the terms, and that was in something called convex analysis that would be familiar to many here. | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 4:03 | history | asked | André Levy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |