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Does the average mathematician have any incentives to create easily understandable explanations for their equations and algorithms? Ones that engineers can use
by 127 5y ago
Does the average mathematician have any incentives to create easily understandable explanations for their equations and algorithms? Ones that engineers can use to implement various ideas.
- Jensson 5y agoThe average mathematician does not work on anything engineers would care about. Maybe you are talking about CS professors instead of mathematicians? I've noticed that many here on HN mix the two. They aren't the same, CS professors aren't specialists on math, they use math as a tool and often don't understand it well enough to explain it properly in a paper. Not to mention that repeating the same explanation in every paper creates a lot of redundancy, the material is already much better explained in many books or online.
- 3pt14159 5y agoIt depends on the CS professor and university. At U of Waterloo, for example, there are two separate degrees one can get as a CS major. One that's a BMath, the other as a BCS. I studied engineering (BASc) there, and while the website may say otherwise[0], everyone recognized that the BMath was the more serious of the two degrees even if there were exceptions here and there. Anyway, all of this to say that mathematicians and computer scientists are highly related. Even more so than mathematicians and physicists. They both deal is pure, (usually) computable abstractions. [0] https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/current-undergraduate-students/majors#BCSvsBMathCS https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/current-undergraduate-students/major...
- neutronicus 5y agoIt's definitely advantageous if you can claim that people in industry are using something you invented (and in other fields I'm more familiar with there are a lot of consulting opportunities)