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Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist?
Old 07-08-2007, 10:40 AM Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist?
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Coryoth writes "A new book is trying to claim that computer science is better off without maths. The author claims that early computing pioneers such as Von Neumann and Alan Turing imposed their pure mathematics background on the field, and that this has hobbled computer science ever since. He rejects the idea of algorithms as a good way to think about software. Can you really do computer science well without mathematics? And would you want to?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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