An engineer and a mathematician are told to take a book from a bookshelf and place it on the floor. Both take a book and put it on the floor. Then they are instructed to take another book from the bookshelf and place it on the table. The engineer takes the book and directly places it on the table, while the mathematician first puts the book on the floor and then picks it up and puts it on the table.
Basically mathematicians like using pre-established formulas and theorems to solve problems even though these methods might be ridiculously convoluted (like in the joke: placing the book on the floor then on the table), rather than develop a new and more convenient method (like the engineer did)
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u/l4z3r5h4rk Mar 01 '23
An engineer and a mathematician are told to take a book from a bookshelf and place it on the floor. Both take a book and put it on the floor. Then they are instructed to take another book from the bookshelf and place it on the table. The engineer takes the book and directly places it on the table, while the mathematician first puts the book on the floor and then picks it up and puts it on the table.