[mcphage]

> I believe you have adopted your opinion of what should go into the first set of brackets of yours.

I'm not really sure what you mean by that.

Certainly I'm not of the opinion that proof-based math is useless; I studied math in grad school, and stayed as far away from anything applied as I could. But I don't think it offers much value to engineers or scientists. Let mathematicians establish the foundations, and let scientists and engineers build on top of that. They're different skill sets, with different goals.