Question

Personality differences between types of mathematicians

Answer 1

Terry Tao: What sound does a drowning number theorist make? “Log log log log log ...”

Answer 2

Unforunately, I eat corn by first having it processed into junk food and then i eat that junk food.

Answer 3

logician: pulls out the corn plant by the root and starts munching on the stalk

Answer 4

Data scientists usually keep Pythons as pets.

Answer 5

all the top comments are just jokes and not answers to the question at all xd

Answer 6

Topologists can’t tell the difference between a cup of coffee and a doughnut.

Answer 7

I've noticed algebraists and topologists are more outgoing and tend to be comprised of more women. PDE and analysis is normally a total introverted sausagefest. And applied mathematicians are usually the most "normal" of the lot, and also  many of them seem to have a knack for music.

Just my personal anecdotal experience.

Answer 8

Not a mathematician but it seems like they think in terms of math as an approach to solving things or doing things. Like a game of chess, go, or maybe even a non-math activity.

Answer 9

Physicist here: I prefer my french fries on a plate, parallel and ascending of course. Potato chips also seem to be sorted by circumference and completeness.

Answer 10

I grab a knife and cut the corn off the cob in strips. What does that say about me?