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Re:Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview by ouid on Friday November 30, 2018 @06:52AM (#18568428)
computer science is math
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Re:Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview by pas on Friday November 30, 2018 @07:06AM (#18568482)
engineering is math too, math is eating everything, oh noes!

but not really, that's software after all. engineering is applied math, so largely software modeling, whereas CS is theoretical work. abstract problems, pure solutions.

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Re:Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview by vonmoltke on Friday November 30, 2018 @08:39AM (#18568973)
> engineering is applied math

It's applied math and applied science. The science informs how to apply the math, since the math is a model of natural phenomena. In fact, most of the math came to engineering via the science.

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Re:Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview by threatofrain on Friday November 30, 2018 @11:11AM (#18570067)
I would argue that CS and type theory explores the very foundations of math.
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Re:Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview by 4ad on Friday November 30, 2018 @09:04AM (#18569155)
No, math is math, engineering is engineering, and science is science.

Engineering and science are not math, even though they use math, and engineering is not science, even though it uses science. They are all very different disciplines.

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Re:Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview by scott_s on Friday November 30, 2018 @11:34AM (#18570266)
My response to that: https://www.scott-a-s.com/cs-is-not-math/
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