Theoretical mathematical utopia

[jack]

Jack's Brain: It's been nice for weeks, lets go to the library without bothering to take my coat.
Jack: No! You don't live in a theoretical mathematical utopia now. You can't predict everything. It's English Spring, it can rain AT ANY TIME whether you expect it to or not. Take a coat!
Jack's Brain: But we never lived in a theoretical mathematical utopia...
Jack's Body: EXACTLY! TAKE! A! COAT!

Comments

[cjwatson]

Guess which Irishman decided to ignore this fine advice when going out leafletting just now? THIS ONE.

[jack]

:) Hope you were ok. In fact, the heavier rain seemed last about one minute so it wasn't a problem for me.

[cjwatson]

Fortunately only drizzled on, nothing too bad.

[naath]

It is England. One should *always* take one's coat...

[jack]

You are my mother and I claim my five pounds! :) No, not really, mum did used to persuade me to wear a coat, and I used to do it too little, but now I pretty much do all winter and don't all summer and that's a level I'm happy with, and mum is ok with that :)

[naath]

I quite often take a jacket even if I don't feel like wearing it... admittedly a lighter one in summer :)

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Whereas I often don't take one even if I do feel like wearing it, because I know I won't want to carry it later.

[seekingferret]

Why would the good weather curve in Theoretical Mathematical Utopia be linear and/or continuous? Wouldn't it be more utopic to a theoretical mathematician if it were some interesting and unusual function of t?

[jack]

Yeah, I think that description is not actually accurate. I think my brain would LIKE to think that being mathematical would make it easily predictable because that would be nice and orderly. Even though that's not what you get in actual maths! :)