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My MA thesis, in part, dealt with this topic: why open-source _should_ be used for mathematical software. Because science and the scientific method proceeds vi
by igravious 12y ago
My MA thesis, in part, dealt with this topic: why open-source _should_ be used for mathematical software.
Because science and the scientific method proceeds via the necessity of verification and because a lot of science is mathematics and because a lot of mathematics is nowadays done on a computer we need to be able to inspect these mathematical black boxes.
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