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Re:What Makes for 'Good' Mathematics? by gcanko on Thursday February 01, 2024 @11:56AM (#39218109)
I’m curious why would it better to focus on the system side of things instead of algorithms?
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Re:What Makes for 'Good' Mathematics? by priprimer on Thursday February 01, 2024 @01:01PM (#39219021)
software algorithms need to be written once to be used by anyone (digital copies and all that)

systems side doesn’t have this problematic quality

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Re:What Makes for 'Good' Mathematics? by eachro on Thursday February 01, 2024 @06:26PM (#39222978)
Because there are real problems to work on that benefit from the sort of problem solving with algorithms that students are hoping to do.
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