Paul Mecurio

I mean, to put this in sort of practical terms, pure math versus applied, it's like you're painting a room and you exactly calculate the number of gallons of paint.

And then two days later, you've made three trips to Home Depot because you need three more gallons and you're going to have a nervous breakdown because that's the applied part, right?

Once you get into it, you sort of go, oh, wait a minute, I didn't factor this in.

And that's sort of what happens with applied math.

And it would then correct some of your pure math calculations, right?

So it's sort of this, it's the symbiotic relationship between the two.

If you're just a little smarter.

Instead of playing with spherical cows all day.

But this is so basic.

It's sort of a yes, no moment, right?

It's even odd.

It should seem like, why does it devolve into chaos?

Because it starts with such a basic conjecture.

premise.

That's the part that's confounding me and I guess obviously others.

You are now confounded.

Can I have my official spherical cow, please?

Yeah, but what is that about?

I was going to say, there's a thing called a computer.

Look at my finger.