As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.
And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.
My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or biology because... the voyagers and adventurers and real contributors - that's where they come from.
I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It was grounded on some fundamental certainties - axioms - that led to others.
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.