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While we're at it, why is it called Computer Science? I think "Computational Mathematics" or something would make more sense.
by jeffdavis 14y ago
While we're at it, why is it called Computer Science? I think "Computational Mathematics" or something would make more sense.
- sn6uv 14y agoComputational maths (research area of mine) is its own field, and is very different to computer science. A introductary (undergrad) computational mathematics course at my university covers; numerical solutions to PDEs, Inverse problems, Regularisation problems, numerical optimisation etc.
- jeffdavis 14y agoI should have looked for a name conflict first, I suppose, but my point is that "science" doesn't seem like the right word to describe most of CS. I'm not saying it's incorrect, but it just doesn't seem to fit well.
- qznc 14y agoIn Germany it is "Informatics" a portmanteau of "information" and "automatic", since the field is about automatic information processing in general.