One major pattern of thought I picked up from (undergraduate) physics is respect for approximation. I worry that those who have this take it for granted, but the idea of a rigorous approximation that’s provably accurate in certain limits, as opposed to a casual guess, isn’t obvious until you’ve encountered it.
One major pattern of thought I picked up from (undergraduate) physics is respect for approximation. I worry that those who have this take it for granted, but the idea of a rigorous approximation that’s provably accurate in certain limits, as opposed to a casual guess, isn’t obvious until you’ve encountered it.