/sqt/ - stupid questions thread

thanks

Can someone explain to me the meaning of this sentence?

"I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth."

"I am a cunt"
Took me 4 years of grad school to decipher that one, lemme tell ya.

I've got a wisdom tooth coming in on the top left side of my mouth and it's starting to be a bother. While it was growing in, it didn't really stick out or hurt, but now that it's basically done, I'm feeling some irritation. Is it okay to leave it be, or am I gonna have to get it removed?

Go to a dentist.
He'll probably order an X-ray and later analyze it.
Each case is different. Don't gamble with your health.

Cartesianism.

Okay dad...

I'm not sure how to word this, but I've seen other people make the same observation that I have: math and physics books tend to be written in different styles.

All the math textbooks I've read in undergrad (with the exception of non-rigorous calculus) are very careful about what is an axiom/definition/assumption vs theorem, and how one thing follows from the next. Before throwing out an equation, it is always careful to frame things: "Let G be a group, suppose H is a normal subgroup of G, ... "

On the other hand, physics books (in my limited experience) tend to just throw around equations with lots of variables and integrals over various volumes with little explanation. I'm not saying I don't know what each symbol means, but it can get confusing to follow the logic along, and leaves me feeling a bit more shaky than with math.

Does anyone know of physics books that are written in a style more friendly to math students? Particularly quantum mechanics, but knowing EM and classical mechanics books like this would be good too.

is the wiki page not clear enough? it comes from the geometry but becomes formalized into a universal property

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