[the_af]

> The latter is the jokes about the physicists "assuming a perfectly spherical cow."

Not to detract from your point at all, but I only ever heard this joke about mathematicians!

[try_the_bass]

I've definitely heard a similar joke about economists. It probably applies to most sciences, tbh

[nagaiaida]

do we mathematicians do particularly much work with cows that is made simpler by assuming they're spherical?

[the_af]

At the very least the cow-equations are made simpler!