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His words: This suggests that learning and doing mathematics might play an important role in educating future computer professionals. Your words: some amount o
by brational 12y ago
His words: This suggests that learning and doing mathematics might play an important role in educating future computer professionals.
Your words: some amount of math is helpful.
Do you not see how these are the same idea, abstractly?
Also,
"if we define mathematics as 'handling abstractions in a precise manner'"
That IS the definition of mathematics. The author is not arguing for more calculus. His background is mathematical logic which is a standard course before all "real" math (analysis, topology, abstract algebra). All of these subjects handle abstractions in a rigorously precise manner.
- jbergens 12y agoBut if programming (computings as he writes) is handling abstractions and math is handling abstractions then programming is math and the argument that we need to do more math is unclear. We could just do programming, he wrote that it basically is math. He needs to be clearer in what kind of math he thinks would be helpful to programmers and why it would help more than "normal" programming/computing courses.
- brational 12y ago> He needs to be clearer in what kind of math he thinks would be helpful to programmers and why it would help more than "normal" programming/computing courses. Agreed.