Re: On Hardy's essay: "A mathematician's apology"

From: Jesse F. Hughes (jesse_at_phiwumbda.org)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:47:54 +0100

examachine@gmail.com writes:

> I disagree that applied mathematics is rather trivial. All computer
> science can be seen as applied mathematics, for instance. Are
> algorithms trivial things?

This is simply not true. Much computer science is closer to pure
mathematics than to applied mathematics. 

-- 
Jesse F. Hughes 
"Radicals are interesting because they were considered 'radical' by
the people who played with them who wrote a lot of math work that
modern mathematics depends on." --Another JSH history lesson

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