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Well I'm not sure when the common usage of "science" changed, but it's possible that when "computer science" was coined in the 1950s [1], the older usage was st
by adrusi 5y ago
Well I'm not sure when the common usage of "science" changed, but it's possible that when "computer science" was coined in the 1950s [1], the older usage was still at least widely understood. Perhaps given the present day importance of the discipline that's stuck with an outdated name, we can return the the older usage which is IMO better.
[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=computer+science&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ccomputer%20science%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=computer+scien...
- neonological 5y agoI'm curious how did mathematics miss out on the word "science." The meaning of the word "scientist" is consistent with how it's not ascribed to a mathematician as mathematicians don't do anything related to the scientific method. The thing is you stated that around this time the term "science" was more broad and just meant acquiring knowledge... how come "science" wasn't applied to mathematicians? Technically, according to what you stated, the definition was broad enough to apply to mathematicians.