f people who work in mathematics, both
&quot;pure&quot; and applied in their different ways, and also people
who use mathematical modeling in other applied disciplines.
Yet if you ask for references to these practical principles,
they say &quot;common sense&quot;, or &quot;folklore&quot;, or &quot;it's obvious&quot;,
or &quot;gosh, I never thought about it out loud before&quot;.
So it would help to start documenting this stuff
for the beneficial use of others, and, of course,
to begin hashing out the differ