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Ask HN: Is there any ways to learn mathematics by programming?
- tmaly 8y agoI am sure it is possible. One of my friends from the university days went for his PHD in statistics at Yale and he was able to survive the math doing everything via programming.
- WheelsAtLarge 8y agoYes, look into learning MATLAB, Mathematica, or SPSS. They are all math base platforms. You will learn math as you learn to program the packages.
- chewz 8y agoI would recommend especially Mathematica and using Wolfram resources (Mathworld [1]) so you can randomly browse through different ideas and play with them in Mathematica code. It's great fun if you like both math and programming. Mathematica can understand and process mathematical notation and has high level of expression allowing you to build an abstraction on top of other abstractions (Prolog like). [This high level of expression of Mathematica is sort of disadvantage as far as programming languages go because you can easily end up with a code that works but is completely unreadable even to you without wrapping your head around it - same like elegant mathematical formula that needs complex proof] Matlab is more for modelling and applied math (it is really good at that). [1] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RiemannHypothesis.html http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RiemannHypothesis.html