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As someone doing research in systems CS with a CS background but not pure math, I think you're on to something here. However, I think you could also view it fro
by anonymousDan 11y ago
As someone doing research in systems CS with a CS background but not pure math, I think you're on to something here. However, I think you could also view it from the perspective of it often being easy to make a novel contribution in a field when you possess skills from a completely different field (i.e. interdisciplinary research). Of course you could argue whether mathematics should be treated differently because it is in some sense more fundamental.
- graycat 11y agoYup: > However, I think you could also view it from the perspective of it often being easy to make a novel contribution in a field when you possess skills from a completely different field (i.e. interdisciplinary research). A very old story is that field crossing is a powerful aid to innovation. > Of course you could argue whether mathematics should be treated differently because it is in some sense more fundamental. Yup, especially for the most respected research, mathematizing a field.
- anonymousDan 11y ago> Yup, especially for the most respected research, mathematizing a field. Well, that's debatable :) I can think of plenty of recent systems conferences where the best paper had nothing to do with mathematizing the field.
- eli_gottlieb 11y agoSystems work is often awful though, precisely due to the religious aversion we systems people carry to notions like "proof", "mathematics", and "correctness". Yes, I work in systems. No, don't ask me what I system I'm talking about. I'm certainly not allowed to tell you, of course, and anyway there have been multiple such systems throughout my life. So. Many. Race conditions.
- graycat 11y agoSounds like an opportunity for applying some math to systems!!