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> 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!

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

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

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