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Similarly, the hard sciences are a solid foundation. Microeconomics is a solid foundation. The moment you start wandering outside of these solid foundations you’re in trouble because now you don’t know what’s true and what’s false. I would focus as much as I could on having solid foundations. It’s better to be really great at arithmetic and geometry than to be deep into advanced mathematics. I would read microeconomics all day long—Microeconomics 101.

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson, Jack Butcher, and Tim Ferriss

And so it went. Cowan found the experience distressing. “These were very provocative lessons in the interlinked aspects of science, policy, economics, the environment, even religion and morality,” says Cowan. Yet he felt incapable of giving relevant advice. Nor did the other academic types on the Science Council seem to be doing much better. How could they? These issues demanded expertise over a broad range. Yet as scientists and as administrators, most of them had spent their entire lives being specialists. The corporate culture of science demanded it.

Complexity

M. Mitchell Waldrop

Freeman Dyson — the world-renowned mathematical physicist who helped found quantum electrodynamics with the bongo-playing, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman and others, devised numerous mathematical techniques, led the team that designed a low-power nuclear reactor that produces medical isotopes for research hospitals, dreamed of exploring the solar system in spaceships propelled by nuclear bombs, wrote technical and popular science books, penned dozens of reviews for The New York Review of Books, and turned 90 in December — is pondering a new math problem.

A Math Puzzle Worthy of Freeman Dyson | Quanta Magazine

quantamagazine.org

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