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| Authored by: Wol on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 04:31 PM EDT |
Maybe to a mathematician everything is maths (I doubt many will agree with you)
but to me as a scientist, maths DESCRIBES reality.
And when I run my - eg weather forecasting program - my program DESCRIBES
reality. Ergo, maths describes reality, software describes reality, could they
be the same thing? Most emphatically, YES.
Let's describe it a different way. We have two classes, one a maths class, the
other a CS class. The maths professor stands up and writes a problem on the
board - "please solve the following problem". The CS professor stands
up and writes a problem on the board - "please write a computer function to
solve the following problem".
Apart from maybe one line at the top describing how the values are input, and
one at the bottom describing how they are output, students in BOTH classes will
come up with the SAME answer (that is, if they get it right).
If they both get the same answer, surely that's because they're the same thing?
And then a simple application of von-Neuman-Church-Turing theories extends to
prove that if some software and maths are the same thing, then ALL software and
maths must be the same thing.
Cheers,
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