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03-27-2008, 10:42 AM
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Re: Programming vs. Mathematics
Math also appears in sneaky ways: like justifying why a GOTO statement is not necessary for programming with If/then and while loops.
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03-29-2008, 07:06 AM
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Re: Programming vs. Mathematics
I sort of agree but why do you think programming is better?
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04-10-2008, 12:31 PM
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Computer Programming versus Mathematics
Well, some comments and opinions were pretty proprely. However, the facts are that the whole concept of computer programming in the field of computer science is abstractly based on mathematics. Mathematics is actually the only universal language of the nature that can describe the truth related to this issue. Basically, almost just a mathematician can really deal with real issues in this field of computer science. A nice example is the book named "The Art of Computer Programming", written by Donald Ervin Knuth, a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at the Stanford University. The book has seven volumes (there are still two to go).
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04-10-2008, 12:54 PM
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Re: Programming vs. Mathematics
In Game Programming, there's more maths than programming! You have to understand matrices, vertices... and there's a bit of physics involved, as well.
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04-10-2008, 01:02 PM
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There is a difference though. Software design mostly doesn't care about mathematics at a high level (i.e. what modules a task requires) unless you are designing a program for an inherently mathematical problem.
However I believe mathematics is important to the field on three fronts: 1. Key concepts are mathematics. No matter how you look at it the reality is that computational complexity is a field of mathematics. 2. Mathematics can be useful for making programs more efficient. A good understanding of both the mathematics and the implementation details allowed the Quake 3 inverse square root hack to be implemented. No amount of programming brilliance can make up for a lack of mathematical understanding in such fields. 3. Mathematics provides metaphors for thinking about programming. Especially as mentioned in the field of functional programming. Mathematical concepts like lambda calculus can change the way you think about programming and as a result offer different insights into how you'd solve a problem (the most basic case would be comparison of recursion and iteration). That said it is possible to be a good programmer without mathematics. It's just possible to be a better one with it.
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04-10-2008, 02:10 PM
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Re: Programming vs. Mathematics
Couldn't have put it better myself.
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04-11-2008, 07:37 AM
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Re: Computer Programming versus Mathematics
Well, yes. I however agree that someone doesn't need to understand deep mathematical concepts if he wants to be a successful computer programmer and computer software developer. But it is also true, that you basically can't work in the field of computer science, computational complexity theory (as you already mentioned) and the whole field of the theory of computation, included numerical analysis, type theory, graph theory, number theory, quantum computing theory, analysis of algorithms and all the fields I forgot to mention, without "good understanding" of mathematics. It is fundamental, yes and it is the only way to go ahead, make real science progress and not just standing where we already are.
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04-11-2008, 10:53 AM
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Re: Programming vs. Mathematics
Du bist richtig, R-G! Mathe muss man kennen. Andernfalls kann man nicht viele Programme schreiben.
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