Physicists are from Mars, Mathematicians are from Venus

Physicists are from Mars, Mathematicians are from Venus

Mathematicians care if their infinite series converge.
Physicists are happy if the first term is finite.

Physicists have more viewgraphs.
Mathematicians have more dimensions.


Physicists now know the number of dimensions in the universe to be:

3 dimensions,
oops 4 dimensions,
or well umm 11 or 20
or wait 10! Is it 10?

Umm..well it's something...

uh (E) none of the above?

Well, let me get back to you on that.



Physicists think that Fields Medal is a conducting alloy.
Mathematicians know it implies tenure.


Physicists forget zero or 10^-23 are finite.

As in “The effects of finite amplitude perturbations on
oceanic haline flows.” and “Finite probability of
conduction electron barrier penetration in
metallic nano-scale structures.”
By finite, physicists often mean non-zero or really non-infinitesimal.

Finite is physics slang for non-zero.

Mathematicians know that a zero amplitude perturbation is finite.
And in this case they get the last word.