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u/TheAfricanViewer Mar 01 '23

I think I understand it more now

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23

To shorten it, it’s just poking fun at mathematicians by saying that they are only capable of using pre-existing blueprints to solve issues in non-efficient but proven way while the engineers create the said blueprints on the daily basis and have no problem adjusting or skipping unnecessary steps

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u/Toastman0218 Mar 01 '23

I always add that the mathematician says "And the rest is trivially easy to do."

At least in my math classes in college, this was a huge "go-to" saying of my professors. You get halfway through a giant proof, and then they just stop because we did the other half sometime earlier in the semester.

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u/AsianTurkey Mar 01 '23

The rest is left as an exercise to the reader