I agree wholeheartedly. The one computer course I got to take in my senior year while majoring in electrical engineering and physics saved me from electrocuting or irradiating myself in a lab. Computer math made such sense to me that I could enjoy doing the assignments instead of fumbling through vague theories and integrals.
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 10:41 AM jon zingale <jonzing...@gmail.com> wrote: > FWIW, my position is probably best summarized in an interview with Yuri > Manin, where he states: > > "I have once translated a talk by Donald Knuth into Russian. In > Uzbekistan, there was a meeting dedicated to Al'khorezmi. Knuth started > his talk with a funny statement. In his opinion, the primary importance > of computers for the mathematical community is that those people finally > took to mathematics who were interested in mathematics but had an > algorithmic sort of mind. Now they were able to do what they wanted. > Before that, this subculture didn't exist. And Knuth was describing > himself as a person whose mind is specially designed for writing software > and how happy he was that, finally, he could do what he wanted to. I take > this argument quite seriously and I do believe that among the community > of future potential mathematicians there is a sub-community whose minds > are better for writing computer programs than for proving theorems. In > the last century, they probably would have proved theorems but nowadays > they do not. I have a great suspicion that for example Euler today would > spend much more of his time writing software because he spent so much of > his time, e.g., in efforts of calculating tables of moon positions. And > I believe that Gauss as well would spend much more time sitting in front > of the screen." > > http://www.ega-math.narod.ru/Math/Manin.htm > > > > -- > Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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