Thomas Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 19:20, Bill Allombert wrote: >> On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 06:20:25PM +0200, Thomas Walter wrote: > > [snip] > >> >> > In general, my understanding of "Science" is in the sense of research >> > and not education. >> > Thus an example breakdown within Sience could be like >> > Mathematics >> > Physics >> > Bio >> > Chemistry >> > Astronomics >> > Geology >> >> Could you provide packages list to flesh these sections ? >> > > Yes, > > either see at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuScientists > > or perhaps at a very old page about SAL > http://sal.jyu.fi/sal1.shtml
Many of these don't seem to be in Debian. We'd need a list of packages *in*Debian* to conclude that it makes sense to split the Science section so much. Anyway, I don't think that it's a good idea to put Mathematics into Science. In agreement with the usual english usage, "Science" is in fact "natural science". However, mathematics is a general foundation for many other types of research. It's central to social science (sociology, psychology, economics) and also important in fields related to philology, e.g. linguistics. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
