help /sci/. i'm too partial on the idea of being a significant contributer to science and math, but i can't decide if i want to focus on applications in technology, or to focus on theoretical frameworks that would lead to applications in the distant future

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05/04/15 (Mon) 18:13:38 No.2244

help /sci/. i'm too partial on the idea of being a significant contributer to science and math, but i can't decide if i want to focus on applications in technology, or to focus on theoretical frameworks that would lead to applications in the distant future.

what do i do? i am heavily inspired by the likes of dirac,fermi,planck, einstein, newton, and so forth, but others that have made advancements by applying themselves, like alan turing, have also motivated me. from this, i can't decide on engineering or theoretical physics/athematics as an undergraduate program.

05/08/15 (Fri) 20:03:29 No.2281

>>2244

Well depending on what you do there can be some overlap.

There are some scientists and engineers that have a both a theoretical and technical aspect to them depending on what you do.

Industry scientists make small theoretical advancements while working with engineers to solve technical problems, so a PhD physicist or chemist would probably have a mix of both , depending on your field of study. Assuming that you aren't fine with choosing all technical or all theoretical.

05/09/15 (Sat) 00:16:16 No.2282

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>>2281

i see. i like that notion. i think that learning the implementations of nonlinear partial differential equations would be a key thing of my studies, so perhaps i would try to do various papers on the matter while seeking both an analytical and numerical method for generalizing them in a rigorous fashion. i say this because of the poincaire conjecture that was proven was done with nonlinear PDE, but also due to the fact that a stoachistic version of it was also devised.

out of all of the progenitors of modern science and math, von neumman is my favorite for his ability to be influentail in three major mathematical frameowrks, in operator, ergodic, and quantum, all while tailoring them for implementations of the other. and still he found a way to attatch himself in nuclear engineering via lenses.

i'll look into doing gradwork in both physics and math. is this viable if i were to a double major in math and physics initially?