Claims and Evidence: A Joke

1 · John Myles White · Oct. 3, 2016, 4:26 p.m.
The other day a friend posted the following old joke about the level of rigor that mathematicians usually require. (Disclaimer: if you take the joke as a serious claim about the standards of quality in the other fields referenced in the joke, it is an obviously unfair characterization of both astronomy and physics.) A Mathematician, […]...