Re:The rise of remote work may reshape college towns
by _wldu on Friday June 04, 2021 @11:50AM
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Is math a science? My CS education was largely math classes. Algorithms are definitely math.
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Re:The rise of remote work may reshape college towns
by mbrudd on Friday June 04, 2021 @12:17PM
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Pursuing this question is quite the rabbit hole, but doing research in mathematics makes me believe that math is a science: you have questions, you collect evidence by exploring examples (i.e., conducting experiments), and you formulate hypotheses as conjectures. If you're lucky, your conjectures are correct and you prove them! Proofs are even better than the accumulated evidence on which theories in other sciences depend, in that proven theorems are immune to falsifiability within the axiomatic system in use.
Re:The rise of remote work may reshape college towns
by weaksauce on Friday June 04, 2021 @11:56AM
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I would say no. STEM is science, technology, engineering, math. compsci is a math degree.
Re:The rise of remote work may reshape college towns
by _wldu on Friday June 04, 2021 @12:00PM
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Maybe math is a tool/framework used by scientists? Physics is another example that is largely math.
Re:The rise of remote work may reshape college towns
by phone8675309 on Friday June 04, 2021 @12:46PM
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Physics : Engineering :: Computer Science : Software Engineering
Re:The rise of remote work may reshape college towns
by nicky0 on Friday June 04, 2021 @12:26PM
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Math is both a philosophical enquiry (pure math) and a tool (applied math & statistics).
Physics as a science uses math as a modelling and analysis tool.
Re:The rise of remote work may reshape college towns
by disgruntledphd2 on Saturday June 05, 2021 @10:03AM
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I've always parsed mathematics more as a language than a science, because it's not necessarily empirical.