would you shorten statistical mechanics to stat mech or stat mechs?
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That's only one topic. There are various mathematics.
see, the problem is that the governance of USA and USSR was all about making workers who were smart enough to do their job and dumb enough not to think about why they were doing it
this is an example of how that was embedded into the language
i wouldn't shorten such a narrow field name, how often am i gonna talk about it?