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Engineers are taught how to use a slide rule. Mathematicians don’t need one! (Just look at the engineering / math departments of today. Engineers make heavy us
by klodolph 4y ago
Engineers are taught how to use a slide rule. Mathematicians don’t need one!
(Just look at the engineering / math departments of today. Engineers make heavy use of calculators, spreadsheets, Matlab, etc. Math majors don’t.)
- nine_k 4y agoDon't math majors use Mathematica, Coq, or other such symbolic computation tools instead?
- defrost 4y agoNot if you want peer acceptance and not be dismissed as a mere CS student. It's acceptable to download your brilliance into something such as, say, CAYLEY/MAGMA [1], [2] but, obviously, once you start grinding the organ [3] and using it algorithmically for computation you're just another monkey . . . [1] http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/conferences/london93.html http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/conferences/london93.html [2] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-15582-6_43 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-15582-6_... [3] http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/magma/ http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/magma/
- angry_octet 4y agoTools don't often help you understand maths, but obviously help you to solve problems. There are plenty of areas where tooling is rudimentary or unfashionable, like programming, where the tools are like chisels and saws used by artisans.