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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 11:57 AM EDT |
No I am not confusing maths and arithmetic. I am an applied mathematician and a
software engineer as well as working as a physcisit and an electronic engineer
in the past. I am very conscious of the difference. Software is about solving
practical real world problems and in doing so the ability to use logical
reasoning is useful as is on occasions mathematical algorithms but writing a
software program is not performing mathematics. What it is is engineering in the
same way that electronics is engineering. Electronic engineers make frequent use
of maths but designing a circuit to perform some function reliably is not
mathematics neither is writing software to perform some function reliably.
SImilarily what physcists do is not mathematcis although it cna be very
mathematical.
Another example: I developed an innovative frequency domain control algorithm
which used complex vectors and matrices, z and fourier transforms and spectral
theory all of that is maths and the algorithm was applied mathematics but I then
designed the implementation using embedded processors and C++ and that was
engineering and yes I probably occasionally used arithmetic as well.
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