What if computing science is superior to math, and mathematicians are wasting their time. What if computing science is the new calculus superior to all maths. Think about it: computers solve problems using automation. Math has to be written out by hand, slowly, with a pencil or pen. Programs can be reprogrammed and generated automatically (consider C code can be converted to Go code automatically). An artificial intelligence would never use a pen or paper - it would automate math using computers - why are mathematicians wasting their time with pen and paper still? Is programming superior to math since it is the new math..
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Anonymous2015-09-14 9:22
Computing science is math. I consider CS as a discipline of mathematics.
But when you use a pen and pencil with math, you are applying... often in math we solve problems that apply to the real world, such as e=mc2 which applies to atoms, the real world. The idea that computing is applied math, and other maths are more pure and not applied... could be a delusion. Richard Feynman claimed that computers were an applied science or were engineering. If this is true, then Feynman when he worked on the atomic bomb project was just an applied engineer too, and not a physicist. Laynes Law.
Are you saying we should combine forces, get math and computing science together? Physics has done this: physicists use math every day. Computing scientists tend to be bad at math (look at all the OOP programmers who haven't a clue about any mathematical foundations, and are concerned with modelling the real world objects like Cars that have Gas pedal methods or Apples that have Red and Green properties as part of their class)
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Anonymous2015-09-14 19:59
if it's applied math, how come you can write a program on a piece of paper with pseudocode, that never touches a physical CPU, but still communicates to people? An example is a program that deals with infinity, which no CPU could ever deal with:
while(true = true) inc(i) end;
This communicates to people an integer incrementing forever, but it could never run on a CPU since cpu's are finite. Therefore I have just written a non physical program that communicates to you, on paper, without it applying to the real world. Computer programs are the new math. A computer program in no way ever has to run on a real physical computer - a computer program can be a program without "computer". Just like math can exist on paper without a calculator.
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Anonymous2015-09-14 20:03
feynman pwned - it's much easier to demonstrate infinity on paper using a loop that keeps incrementing an integer, than to show someone infinity using some gay math symbol that looks like a catholic fish or something