Comment on Advanced Calculations

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• someacnt_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Sorry, but I’ve never seen engineers perform beautiful, artistics calculations - it was mostly to meet the end. Meanwhile, mathematicians do tons of them which are beautiful.

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  • CodexArcanum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    This is why I love comp sci. I hated math all through undergrad and only started to love it when I got much deeper into my career. I’m bad at calculations and find them tiring.

    A beautiful, well written bit of code has a lot in common with a beautiful formula. And it has the huge advantage that the computer does all the tedious, error prone number crunching for me! That way I can focus just on the beauty of all the errors in my methodology, not my execution.

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    • someacnt_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Yeah, mathematicians often end up having to do bunch of messy calculations by hand, just to find nice patterns. I am envious computer scienctists can avoid that ;P

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  • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I don’t know what should be called calculations? I think that means finding out a value from some fancy mathematic framework. (Pure)Mathematicians build that framework, maybe engineers use it to find stuff

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    • someacnt_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      We pure mathematiciand do addition and multiplication all the time, it’s just that what it represents is like, identification of module of structure sheaf.

      • Integration is just a summation, where limit is there to cover countablility!

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      • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Inventing calculus is different from doing integration. Thats what i’m saying

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