Several students were asked the following problem:
Prove that all odd integers higher than 2 are prime.
mathematician: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, and by induction, we have
that all the odd integers are prime."
Statistician: 100% of the sample 5, 13, 37, 41 and 53 is prime, so all odd
numbers must be prime.
Mechanical Statistician: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is an
outlier, 11 is prime, 13 is prime, .... all odd numbers are prime.
Measure nontheorist: there are exactly as many odd numbers as primes
(Euclid, Cantor), and exactly one even prime (namely 2), so
there must be exactly one odd nonprime (namely 1).
Physicist: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is ... uh, 9 is an
experimental error, 11 is prime, 13 is prime... Well, it seems that
you're right."
Wouldn't a modern physicist employ something like renormalization?
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is ...
9/3 is prime
11 is prime, 13 is prime, 15 is ...
15/3 is prime
17 is prime, 19 is prime, 21 is ...
21/3 is prime
Quantum Physicist: All numbers are equally prime and non-prime until observed.
Chemist: "3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime.. that's enough."
Chemist: 1 prime, 3 prime, 5 prime...hey, let's publish!
Cosmologist: 3 is prime, yes it is true....
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