Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms

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From: J. Giles
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:06

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In article <1efg1gINNm6c@network.ucsd.edu>, mbk@lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel) writes:
|> akao@.com (Adam Kao) writes:
|> : [...]
|> : Computer science is not mathematics.  Computer science is not the servant
|> : of mathematics.  Computer science is related to mathematics only by
|> : historical accident.
|> 
|> Yup, those mere "accidents of history", like Turing and Von Neumann.

This argument can go on and on.  The fact is that computing "science"
is a misnomer.  CS is to mathematics as engineering is to the hard
sciences.  Mathematics is the study of the properties of formal
systems.  CS is the application (and further study) of particular
varieties of formal systems.  To say that this relationship doesn't
exist or is an historical accident is to miss the fundamental nature
of CS.

-- 
J. Giles

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