2012年6月11日 星期一

Spirit of Statistician, Physicist, and Mathematician

      One day when I went to a bookstore, I read a book which is about mathematics. It had an interesting story about a goat. The purpose of the story was to tell us about the different spirits of
statistician, physicist, and mathematician. What was the story about? Let's check it out.

      One day, a statistician, a physicist, and a mathematician had a trip together. when they were on a train, they see a black goat on the grasslands outside the window. 

  • "I claim that all the goat here are black, and my sample size is 1." said the statistician . 
  • "I just conclude that this one is black . I don't know how about others." said the physicist.
  • "I am only sure that the side we saw is black ." said the mathematician.


      Obviously, the three kind of people have different opinion. Statisticians are used to analysis the data they get and then predict about the future. In other words, statisticians are looking at future; Physicists are more strict then statisticians. But they still have some ideal assumption. In other words, physicists live in a methodic world which follows the laws; However, what mathematicians think is always following logic. They never believe the fact that haven't been proved. In other words, mathematicians are very strict about everything. It is quite difficult to persuade them by any nonsense.

      This story really gave me a big apocalypse. Because of majoring in mathematics, the spirit of the mathematician in the story is a model of my study, so do my personality. 



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